Writing the initial version of a document to be improved later (8)

I believe the answer is:

drafting

(Other definitions for drafting that I've seen before include "Writing a preliminary version" , "Impressing" , "Drawing up an outline" , "Making rough preliminary written version" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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