Essay Revision

Revising your paper is not skimming a paper while watching youtube or listening to music. Revising is focusing on many elements in your draft.

Questions to ask yourself while revising your essay Does everything in your paper support your thesis, or have you gone off the topic? No matter how much you like a point or a sentence, if it is off the topic, you must cut it.

Does one detail follow naturally from the previous one? and lead naturally to the next detail? Will their connection be clear to the reader? Fill in any jumps between thoughts.

Have you made clear how the support is connected to each detail in the paragraph? If not, connect them.

Have you organized your material so that all your discussion of one of your details is in one place in your essay, or does the same detail get discussed in more than one place in the essay? Combine all discussion of one detail in one place, and cut any repetition.

Have you repeated a point more than once? Have you said the same thing over and over? Are you being repetitious, as I am right now? If so, cut the repetitions.

Is the grammar correct? For example, do the verbs and subjects agree? have you used the correct verb forms?

Is the punctuation correct? For example, do you have any run-on sentences or fragments? Have you used the correct form of a word (e.g., believe rather than belief)? Are words spelled correctly? With spell check, there is no excuse for misspelled words.

Once you write a complete draft of your essay, you revise it--adding material, deleting material, and making corrections. You type or handwrite a draft which incorporates all your changes and corrections. You then continue the revision process-- you revise your paper again...and then again...and then maybe revise it some more, even if you are sick of working on the paper. Now you are ready to hand in your paper.

OMAM Argument Mini Essay Must be 4 paragraphs Must include an introduction, two body and conclusion paragraphs. Each body paragraph must include one direct quote from the book and be cited properly. EX: "Some text from the novel " (23). Must include Works Cited: Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Penguin, Print.

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