Make Your Draft Ready to Publish - Elements of Good Writing Tips

So after researching and applying some common frameworks to structure your writing, are your emails, messages or proposals ready for the final launch? There is one last step: to take feedback and get it reviewed.

 
In the upcoming video, Rakesh will explain why it is important to ask for feedback on your piece of writing before taking it to the final audience.

Here, ‘taking feedback’ refers to showing your draft to people for their opinion on it. 

You can get quick feedback through any of the following methods:

• Self-review
• Review by peers
• Review by seniors

Now, the final product is ready to be published. Once you have added all the flavours together for publishing, you can gauge the response on your draft in the following manner:

• Pick insights from the target audience based on their response
• Review the bits that you need to polish and improve your draft
• Track how people are perceiving the content that you are publishing

Sometimes, the answer to our problems lies in the reflection of the problem.

Communication can sometimes be brutal. Therefore, feedback is the loop that can help you write better. It can help you understand why people rate something higher or lower. 

Just to give you a quick recap, the following topics were covered in this session:

• Basic principles of writing
• Applying frameworks like AOM, OBC 
• Using scaffolding to develop your first draft 
• Polishing your draft
• Receiving feedback from those around you

This process, when it becomes a habit, will make you a writer that audiences respond to. 

Exercise

You can use the following exercise to practice the principles of writing, various frameworks, polishing your draft and building the habit of receiving feedback on your content: 

• Write a 500-600 word essay about the industry you are working in, and publish it in your daily newspaper.

Additional resources:

• A collection of famous advice on writing by recognised authors