1. Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts

2. 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

3. Three Activities of Revising

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

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

6. Checking Your Draft Yourself  Distance yourself from your draft

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

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

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

10. Reviewing Drafts  Discuss objectives

11. Reviewing Drafts  Positive relationships make happy writers and reviewers

12. Reviewing Drafts  Do you have taste?

13. Reviewing Drafts  Be an explorer

14. Reviewing Drafts  Be helpful

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

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

17. Managing Your Revising Time  Significant revisions come first

18. Managing Your Revising Time  Be diplomatic

19. Managing Your Revising Time  Revise to learn

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