1. Look, and then look again
Revision strategies

2. Writing is revision…. There are no good writers; there are only good rewriters.
– unknown

3. What do you see?

4. What do you see?
Is the book facing away from you or towards you?

5. What do you see?

6. What do you see?

7. When you say something, make sure you have said it
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair. – E. B. White

8. What is Revision? Like writing itself, revision is a process
Revision and reading go together
Revision is taking a step back from your writing and looking at it again with a fresh perspective
Once you do this, you can make appropriate changes to better meet the purpose of your message and better address your audience

9. Revision Is NOT Editing
Revision is about “higher-order concerns”
Clear communication of ideas
Organization of paper
Paragraph structure
Strong introduction and conclusion
Editing is about “later-order concerns”
Sentence mechanics
Punctuation
Spelling
Capitalization
Documentation Style

10. Revision is Necessary
Few writers can produce polished writing on the first pass
Revision ensures that you said exactly what you wanted to say in a manner most appropriate for your audience

11. Revision involves adding, cutting, moving material, and after that, editing and proofreading.
– Handbook Lynn Troyka.

12. Risks of Not Revising
An ineffective message is a waste of everyone’s time
Your reader may misunderstand or be confused by what you have written
Your reader may form a low opinion of your abilities

13. Careless, hasty, unrevised writing is always apparent.

14. How Do I Revise? Try the ECR method evaluate, change, reevaluate
Try ACRM method add, cut, replace, move
Wait
Be honest with yourself
Throw stuff away
Don’t edit
Look again

15. Take a Break from Writing
After your first draft, take a break and do something else
Return to it later with a fresh perspective
Switch your role from writer to reader
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. – Horace

16. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over. – John Hersey

17. Activities During Revision
Shift mentally from suspending judgment; read your draft critically to evaluate it.
Decide whether to write an entirely new draft or to revise what you have. Don’t be too critical. Most early drafts are sufficient to allow for revision.
Be systematic. Move from higher- to lower-level concerns.
organization
paragraphs
sentences
word choice

18. 1 2 Revise on Two Levels… Global Level whole essay and paragraphs
Local Level sentences and words

19. Do you have writer’s block?
Fear of writing
Mental paralysis
Frustration
Panic
Procrastination
Avoidance

20. Treating the Block Stop hating the block—refocus your energy
Be comfortable with chaos
Do a good job at prewriting
Turn off the internal editor
Picture an image or scene that relates to your topic
Try writing your material as if your were someone else
Avoid staring at a blank page
Visualize yourself writing
Write about your topic to a friend
Start in the middle
Use focused freewriting
Change your method of writing

21. Vigorous writing is concise
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. —The Elements of Style William Strunk, Jr.

22. To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. – Gertrude Stein

23. Writing is revision…. There are no good writers; there are only good rewriters.
– unknown