![]() Her father was the son of a gambler who would take him to the racetrack, give him the rent money to keep it from his own father, then beat his own son to get it back. But she was resolutely silent about all the ghastly things she experienced. Years later, she fondly recalled a childhood that “smelled like eucalyptus trees, the Pacific ocean and jet fuel”. He had such good sources in the fire department that he and his wife once scooped KABC-Los Angeles when its own 11pm anchor was shot outside the station. When the Northridge earthquake knocked out power to half of Los Angeles, her father used a forklift to rip open a hangar door so he could drag the chopper out and take off. The switch was the right choice because even a particularly hard-fought campaign could not compete with the drama of her upbringing.īob Tur was the kind of journalist who would do anything to get the story, “an oracle” to Katy. Her second book therefore tells a story she had spent her adult life avoiding: the story of her childhood. That hard drive convinced Tur to switch subject. Sometimes Katy felt the heat on her shins from a blaze barely 500ft below. Her daredevil father once got so close to a forest fire, he was cited for fanning its flames. The drive contained all the footage shot from helicopters piloted by her father, Bob: from Madonna giving her parents the finger on the day she married Sean Penn to the famous chase of OJ Simpson as he sped through the streets of LA in a white Ford Bronco.Īs a child, Katy was often a passenger as her mother leaned far out of the cockpit to catch the best possible shot. I have not seen a file name with ‘draft rough’ in it.The package contained a hard drive, which contained every minute of tape her parents, Bob Tur and Marika Gerrard, had taken as sole proprietors of the Los Angeles News Service. In such a case, the rough draft (if there is one) might be saved as ‘draft 1’. The status of numbered drafts, however, is today a trickier matter than it was before computers. Moreover, if you told me you were sending me a ‘draft’ of a book or article, I should expect something more carefully worked out than a rough draft. There is, I think, a genuine difference between a rough draft and a first draft. So the word sketch, as in the first definition you cite is just the word. I would not have checked it with great care. In such a case I might submit a rough draft to my line manager or even a trusted colleague, just to check that it was broadly along the right lines, sufficiently comprehensive, taking account of any relevant policies, and covering ground worth covering. The first draft has to be close to the finished report but for a few minor corrections and clarifications.Īt other times I might have to write a guidance paper on some aspect of (say teaching). It would be a waste of my time, for the effective use of which I was properly accountable. In such a case there was (and is) no place for a rough draft. It had to follow a prescribed format according to prescribed procedures. In my previous profession, as an HM Schools Inspector, I had to produce two kinds of document. You might start with a "rough draft", edit it into a "reasonable draft", edit it again into a "final draft" and then turn it into a "published version". A "draft" might be preliminary, but a "rough draft" is very preliminary. "Rough" here isn't redundant, it's an intensifier. I added in a few chapter titles which Alice hadn't included, but I haven't put any detail in it's still a rough draft. Manager: Bob, did you manage to do anything with the rough draft of that report which Alice started?īob: Yeah, but I only had 10 minutes for it last night. Therefore a "rough draft" is "a draft that is not perfected in any detail". not polished or perfected in any detail rudimentary not elaborate. ![]() I don't see "rough draft" as a compound noun, I see "draft" as a noun and "rough" as an adjective, meaning: From a quick google I found that some other dictionaries agree with Merriam Webster that a "rough draft" is a first draft: and oxford dictionaries.
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