My friend Grace, who writes the Cost of College blog, has written several posts about William J. Kerrigan’s X-1-2-3 method:
The Kerrigan method of ‘Writing to the Point’
Step 3 – Completing the ‘sentence stack’
Step 4 – FIRST DRAFT being CONCRETE
Step 4 – ABSTRACT vs. CONCRETE
Step 4 – Function of a Paragraph
AND SEE: Writing, writing, writing