Chapter 4 Notes

*Revising as re-seeing your work
  - Revising is the most important step in the writing process
  - Revising will improve your writing
  - Revising is the process of working out the thesis and structural suport of your essay.
  - Revising helps you to see the whole persepective, concerns, and analyzes your points, support,   and /or organization
   - May have to put alot of revision into the work.
   - Need to be open-minded in order to become a better revisor.
   - During, the rough draft focuson the big picture issues first start with the whole then work on the details of your writing.
*Practice Peer Review
    - Also called "workshopping"
    - Workshopping is a group of peers providing constructive critism
    - Peer review has two purposes
    - It gives critism for the draft.
    - Improves you as a reader and writer
    - Feedback helps in many differnt ways
*Revision Stratigies
    - Reread the assignment prompt to start out with
    - create a list of weaknesses and strengths, write, what should be worked on and which should be left alone
*Revision To Make Your Audience and Purpose Clear
    -The introduction sets the tone for the rest of the writing.
    -The writing should have a clear audiance
    -The writing should be considerate to the audiance.
*Revising to Recognise an Essay
     -If you dont plan before the writing you will have a poor rough draft.
     -When revising be ready to make fixs and improvements
     -Essays should be neat and organized on a two level form, though the overall and within each paragraph
     -If it is messy, try another approach to create a more logical, order, oragnized writing.
     -Some steps to reorganize the writing, step 1; is to make a list of your paragraph topics or points, step 2: evaluate the leftovers. Step 6: return to the document on your computer.
*Revising to Reorganize a Pargraph
     -When revising it is important to keep new information organized throughout the important writing
     -Focus on the main point, and start from there.
     -Connect the rapport with main point to make a clear essay
     -Go over transitions make the transitions clean and oragnized. Evaluate the transitions.
*Revising for Paragraph Development
     - The objective for the body paragraph is to support the thesis
     - Every body paragraph should have a point and topic sentence with information that supports the main point
*Revising to Intergrate qoutations and Paraphrases
      -When using a qoutation in your essay you should allways make sure the reader knows where it is coming from.
      -The qoutation should be like a sandwhich involves: introducing the question, copy the exact words of the reader where you recieved the information for the quote.
      -Allways introduce the qoutation to help the reader have a clear understanding
      -To introduce use a signal phrase, or introductory words, and use the last name of the author.
      -formula for a full-introduction signal phrase for the first mention of an author in your essay: full title of work(book or article)+ full name of author+signal a phrase word+qoute.
*Explain what the Qoutation Means
      -Readers interpret the qoute differntly, provide good information to help the readers know what the qoutation means.
*Explain how the qoutation Support your Point
      - Explain why the Qoute was introduced it into the essay
*Editing Stratigies
      - Realization that revising take effort and time
      - Dont go overboard revising, loosen up.
*Revising your Essay Outloud
      - Reading outloud is effective
      - 5 step process to reading outloud. Step 1 print a copy of your paper and grab a pencil or pen. Step 2: Read your paper outloud. Step 3: When you finish reading the whole document go back and focus on those underlined parts. Step 4: Edit your document on the computer. Step 5: Repeat step 1-4 untill your paper sounds great.
*Reading Backwards
      -also a highly effective strategy for revision.
      -step one: choose your most serious error. Step 2: Print your essay and also find a black piece of paper. Step 3: turn to the last page of your essay. Step 4: read the essay, one structural at a time, back to front. Step 6: take a break between passes so you are allways looking at your essay fresh. Step 7 repeat the steps with your next most serious error and thus the next.
*Proofreading
      -proofreading the final for revising and includes, going through grammar and spelling error or minor details.