Outcome 4

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To develop flexible strategies for revising, editing, and proofreading writing.

  • The writing demonstrates substantial and successful revision.
  • The writing responds to substantive issues raised by the instructor and peers.
  • Errors of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics are proofread and edited so as not to interfere with reading and understanding the writing.

 

As I’ve progressed as a writer through this course, I have also moved away from the motive of creating the “perfect first draft” which was something I did a lot in high school. Although this seemed to work in high school, it was because the teacher wasn’t going to critique every little thing a young high school kid does in his writing (or at least my teachers didn’t). Now that I’m out of that lazy go-through-the-motions stage of my life, I have realized the extreme importance of revision. For me personally in this class, I have a tendency to finish my second or so draft and think, “this is perfect!” but that’s because I’m human and repress any signs of a shit essay to make myself feel good. With that being said, one of the best things is getting an essay back that has been revised, fix those revisions, and realize that your paper is one step closer to that perfect paper you had originally hoped for.

I decided I am going to revise my MP2 dealing with my academic paper. I chose this one for a few reasons. Firstly, after looking back over my comments, I realized that you thought the paper was better than I thought it was and could definitely be refined to make a more fluid piece. There weren’t to many higher order concerns that I needed to worry about going into revision. I knew there was work to be done, but the piece wasn’t a complete disaster to start with giving me a strong base to build off of in a revision. There is also some definite room for improvement with my paper structure. For example, in the comments you addressed that I could have rearranged my paragraphs dealing with the locus of control by stating in a comment “Great transition and topic sentence. You build well off the points made above. Great organization overall.” I plan to take all of the comments that you made on my paper such as the comment mentioned above into consideration.  Like usual, I have a fair amount of LOC that I need to deal with. I plan to fix these and get a friend to read out loud with me to see if there are any others that we can catch. While doing this, I am going to make sure that my new revisions keep the fluidity of my piece and do not ruin it by adding too much. I hope you enjoy my MP2!

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