ON REVISION:

“Revision is about being able noticing the glaring errors that are right in front of your own eyes, listening with your story ears to hear how it would sound best, and seeing with fresh eyes the mistakes you are otherwise inclined to cover up unconsciously.  Be focused, be precise, and be ruthless and tireless in your scrutiny… and you will win the day.”

Revising is…

… like a football coach watching tapes.  Imagine if you could go back to your most important game and, like watching a video after the fact, change all of your team’s errors, fixing the mistakes one at a time.  That’s what revising is like!

… like water breaking on sand repeatedly.  Revising is not a do-it-once and be done sort of thing.  Good writing and revising takes multiple efforts, multiple shapings in order to get it right.  Think of waves breaking upon a beach.

TASK
*Always revise off of your best, most recent version.  (Don’t work backwards)


First Pass, Red Ink Revision on hard copy

Second Pass, Digital Revision using Criterion
Document Comments
Use multiple submissions for Feedback Loop

Third Pass, Backwards Reading.  Read one sentence at a time out loud, starting at the end of the document and moving backwards

Fourth Pass, Digital Listening – Kurzweil 3000
Use the first part of your own account name
example:  “jc14bps"
Create New Account if neccessary

Fifth Pass Natural Listening - Partner Read
Listen as someone else reads it out loud to you while you follow along with hard copy text

HARD COPY DUE ON WEDNESDAY @ Beginning of Class – CRITERION PRINT OUT