Thoughts on Drafting

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After finishing the first draft of my QRG, I can now take a break and reflect on how the QRG unfolded. Definitely there were some things for my preparation in writing this QRG draft that were helpful, and there were some that proved to be not so helpful. Let's take a look-see at those things, shall we?

To begin, learning how to write the PIE paragraph and how to properly organize information proved invaluable for this QRG. By following the PIE paragraph format, I could keep the whole structure of the QRG coherent and sensible while providing vivid yet concise information for fast reading because keeping paragraphs at three sentences are great for both the reader (it allows for more comprehension for the presented data) and for the author (it does not require extensive elaboration). Learning how to organize the information was also very vital for the QRG. If I just slapped on the information in a haphazard manner, the whole guide would have made little sense and, obviously, would have been extremely unorganized.

The rest of the information (drafting a thesis statement, writing introductions, and writing conclusions) were only partially helpful: they gave a slight idea of how to write good theses, intros, and conclusions, but not of how to write them for a QRG, and an AMA-style QRG to boot. Particularly, all three of those sections were more concerned about writing a rhetorical analysis, something that will prove useful two weeks from now, but not so much currently. Therefore, I had to readjust the thesis, introductions, and conclusions to fit the style of a conversational, AMA-style QRG, making a more captivating intro with a thesis and a more overarching, predictive conclusion.

Overall, writing the QRG was definitely a new experience for me. It demanded that I take all of the experience I had with writing research papers and modifying it to make something short, sweet, and filled to the brim with facts. So ends draft #1, and so begins the final stage of the QRG project.