The phrase "a rough draft for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an initial version of a document or piece of writing that is not yet finalized and is intended for further revision or editing.
Example: "I have completed a rough draft for my research paper, and I plan to revise it before the final submission."
Alternatives: "an initial version of" or "a preliminary draft of".
By eventually treating the work he produced in Yiddish as a rough draft for the English "original," Singer seemed to deny the wounded world that had spawned him.
Critics dismissed it as a rough draft for To Kill a Mockingbird and readers despaired over an ageing, racist Atticus Finch.
Troy resists her request -- his jeans are his uniform, his second skin, and he has no intention of turning them into a rough draft for Levi's next line.
If that sounded like a rough draft for an acceptance speech, Mr. Bardem was quick to point out the horror of his post-nomination press conference.
In the Senate, Mr. Murkowski is expected to introduce his own proposal in the next 10 days, as a rough draft for a Bush plan that is not expected until April.
Why is this happening?" At the same time, the manufacturing of evidence, the manipulation and rewriting of the legal code and the government's brazen lying to its own people and the West amounted to a rough draft for the future.
Included is a rough draft of his Farm Plan for the Future, 1952.
Rice research got a boost earlier this week when the biotech company Monsanto announced that it is 2 weeks away from finishing a rough draft of the genome for rice, a crop that feeds half the world's population.
So it is reasonable to propose: before we take any territory, let's agree on a plan for what happens afterwards; at the very least, let's have a rough draft of a plan for who's going to hold the territory when we leave and how they're going to do it.
Sketch out a rough draft of the illustrations you want to use for each page.
