7. Drafting Having collected all the materials, notes research data, analyses etc, we are ready to sit down and actually write the First Draft The materials should be categorized as to Section labelled and ready to be used as we write the sections The original references and notes from the literature( index cards) should be at hand. If you are writing for submission to a chosen journal. a copy of the journals"Instruction to Authors"should be at hand The aim at this stage is just to write some sort of rough draft of the paper. At this stage just aim to write for the parts: Title, Introduction, Theoretical framework, Experimental, table (some), Illustrations(some), References, Acknowledgements. The more difficult parts Results, Discussion, Abstract can come later7 7. Drafting Having collected all the materials, notes ,research data, analyses etc, we are ready to sit down and actually write the First Draft. The materials should be categorized as to Section, labelled and ready to be used as we write the sections. The original references and notes from the literature ( index cards) should be at hand. If you are writing for submission to a chosen journal, a copy of the journal’s “Instruction to Authors” should be at hand. The aim at this stage is just to write some sort of rough draft of the paper.At this stage just aim to write for the parts: Title, Introduction, Theoretical framework, Experimental, tables (some), Illustrations (some), References, Acknowledgements. The more difficult parts Results, Discussion, Abstract can come later