Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts

Read, Listen, Implement  Checking Your Draft Yourself  Reviewing Your Draft  Managing Your Revising Time Checking the Draft Yourself Reviewing Your Draft Managing Your Revising Time

Three Activities of Revising

Checking Your Draft Yourself  From your reader’s point of view

Checking Your Draft Yourself  From your employer’s point of view

Checking Your Draft Yourself  Distance yourself from your draft

Checking Your Draft Yourself  Check it twice and change your focus

Checking Your Draft Yourself  Computer aids: part of the solution- not the cure Spelling and Grammar Check

Checking Your Draft Yourself  Be ethical: think about your stakeholders’ perspective

Reviewing Drafts  Discuss objectives

Reviewing Drafts  Positive relationships make happy writers and reviewers

Reviewing Drafts  Do you have taste?

Reviewing Drafts  Be an explorer

Reviewing Drafts  Be helpful

Reviewing Drafts  Be ethical: Review from your stakeholders’ perspective

Managing Your Revising Time  Invest wisely- buy high, sell low, adjust to the situation

Managing Your Revising Time  Significant revisions come first

Managing Your Revising Time  Be diplomatic

Managing Your Revising Time  Revise to learn

Let’s Review the Three Checking the Draft Yourself Reviewing Your Draft Managing Your Revising Time