These three sections of the book talk about planning and drafting for what will eventually become your final research paper. Planning Again talks about how forming an outline before you start is not the most important thing, because sometimes it is more helpful to begin writing and THEN create your outline. There is no set time or set procedure to follow; just do what you feel you have to do when you're comfortable doing it. Planning Again also talks about when to start a first draft and topic-based vs. point outlines. Chapter 12 talks about planning your report. It discusses the major mistakes many new researchers make, how a plan can be a good guide, and how it can simplify writing when you sit down to do it. Chapter 13 talks about drafting, and how it is equally as important as planning to the research. It can help you discover new ideas and enhance them, and also work out all of the kinks that you have had in the research up until now. The last section also talks about my biggest challenges, procrastination and writer's block, and helped me not look so warily at the task I must do.
Because my first draft of my essay is coming up soon, these chapters were important for me to read. They will guide me through my first steps toward writing my paper and planning out what I will do in the future. Furthermore, they gave me new ideas to use when planning what I will say, and a new form of an outline that may be helpful. I especially liked the part about procrastination and writer's block, because between the two of them, they will be my downfall. I will take the steps the author's gave on how to avoid it and tackle my research project in smaller, but manageable steps.
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