I Believe In Writing a Rough Draft.

It seems that at this point in time rough drafts are becoming less and less of a staple feature in society. People no longer feel the need to collect there thoughts and ponder on the point their trying to make. Instead, most people want to print that final paper as fast as they possibly can so they can move on to doing whatever else it is they wanted to do. The common mentality is that the idea or opinion being presented comes second to how fast you can blurt it out. This is probably do to the fact that without a rough draft there is no need to worry over whether or not your point is correct, instead one can focus on defending the paper when it is challenged by criticism. However, I believe that without a rough draft the importants of the idea within the paper is forgotten and lost within the haste of the presentation. In the end, if you don’t take the time to think, then your own opinion wont be one hundred percent of your own beliefs.

Of coarse, I’m not completely talking about actual papers in the classroom. More so I mean the things people say and how they express their opinion. I see it everywhere; people not preparing their thoughts before they proclaim it as their own personal opinion. But the problem with this is that when someone forgets to think about what they say (or write a rough draft in their head) they often just follow the opinion of the last person they heard. I, like the rest of us, have had first hand experience in stating my thoughts or ideas without thinking about the issue for myself or wondering if the I agree completely with what I just said. Recently, about a month ago, I caught myself doing just that.

I was watching the news when the issue turned to abortion, and even though it was never said word for word, the broadcast seemed to have a fairly anti-abortionist pro-life message. Later on that day I was having a conversation with my friend when (in some strange stretch of the conversation) the topic switched to abortion and what we think about it. Without thinking I took the side of pro-life and to this my friend was surprised. He told my that only a week ago I was preaching on the side of pro-choice, and with that the realization hit me that as long as I don’t think about the issue seriously I am completely swayed by the last thing I heard.

I believe in writing a rough draft, because if you do not think about the point you are trying to make, it is quite possible that you will end up blindly following something that you do not understand or believe in completely. By righting rough drafts I am slowly finding out who I am and what I believe in. Through rough drafts I can explore my own mind and perhaps discover new things about myself. So, to everyone out there, I urge you to make a conscious effort to stop skipping straight to the final paper. Who knows you may discover something about yourself that you never knew, or at the very least stop yourself from saying something you might regret.