Selzer gives plenty of evidence to back up his descriptions of Kenneth Nelson's work. Selzer organizes the information logically by four different aspects of Nelson's writing: planning and inventing, arrangement, drafting, and revision. He provides enough examples to make it clear that a good amount of observation was conducted for the article. He observed Nelson's notes, memos, drafts, and his finished work. He also kept track of how much time Nelson spent working on different parts of the writing process; he found, for instance, that Nelson spent only 20% of the project development in the composition stage. Selzer also describes Nelson's minimal revision procedure, for example, where Nelson's secretary transfers his handwritten draft into a word processor, so that he can then move on to the editing process.