REVISION

In the past when it came to revising my writing, it usually meant reading through the whole piece and correcting errors, deleting wordy portions, or adding more information. Now that I'm in college, I've taken advantage of peer review processes and also have grammarly installed on my device to help me revise. I remember in elementary and middle school peer revision was a lot more emphasized as we used to pass essays out to the whole class and classmates would revise for their peers. However this process happened much less for me in high school.

A few revision methods I’ve picked up from this course have been utilizing the 4 questions from "Revising Your Paper" (1. Did I fulfill the assignment 2. Did I say what I intended to say? 3. What are the strengths of my paper? 4. What are the weaknesses of my paper?). By asking these questions and recording the answers, I think I'll be able to better revise my paper by looking at it from a rubric stand point and analyzing its purpose. I will also continue to use a second reader, because it is something I've done in the past but not as recently in college. It was very constructive in my past experience and is a great way to get a fresh set of eyes on my paper. This allows me to hear feedback from someone else as it can be hard to revise something you've been staring at for days.