The middle of summer break, in regards to my thesis, was where I spent most of my time just writing up the first draft of it. Everyday I would sit down and type out a section of it. Some days it would be writing an entire chapter and other days it would be just a paragraph or two. Slowly going through and writing what I wanted to explain and incorporating my sources. I went through my thesis in the order starting with things like title pages, introductions, abstracts etc and working my way slowly towards the conclusion.
I purposefully didn’t go back to edit large portions of my paper. While I’d allow myself to edit a sentence here and there I wouldn’t re-write any sections. This was because I felt it was more important to have a complete first draft before making any large changes as I would really only have a complete understanding of my topic once I’d fully written a first draft. It would be wasted effort to re-write and re-word sections to make it sound good if ultimately at the end of my paper I found that that section didn’t actually represent what I was trying to say.
Approaching the end of summer I would begin my major edits.