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Making your writing better Revising! Making your writing better

Revising vs. Editing Revising means trying to make your writing better by making changes in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency. Editing means trying to make your writing correct by making changes in conventions.

RADaR: Revision Strategies R: Replace A: Add D: Delete and R: Rearrange

First Draft I went to the crossroads. I was lost in thought. My shoelaces were untied. I stopped. I took a look around me.

Revised Draft I went to the crossroads. I was lost in thought. My shoelaces were untied. I stopped. I took a look around me. Lost in thought, I approached the deserted crossroads. I stopped and took a look around me.

Replace Went was replaced with ________________

Add _________________ was added to describe the crossroads.

Delete The part about the ______________ was deleted.

Rearrange The first sentence was combined with the ________ sentence. The fifth sentence was combined with the _______ sentence.