A finished work differs essentially from its raw preparatory material

Evidence

A work can never be identified with the raw material collected for its compilation. It is the definitive choice, the way the component elements are disposed, the greater or lesser importance given to this or that element of those collected in the preparatory phase, which are precisely what constitute the effective work. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1371

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what constitutes the ‘effective work’ against its draft materials.
• XREF: connects to: Unpolished, in-process writing draws more response than polished work — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 174; An unfinished text’s incompletion may be real accident or deliberate artifice