SQR 3 (Revision Strategies)

Arturo de la Torre


ENG 1320/1301.158

Trang Phang

9/6/10



Summary



There are ways to use Revision Strategies. The basic steps to revision is to begin with something simple like brainstorming (prewriting) where you put your thoughts and ideas into a paper before begging to write the actual writing. Then comes the actual writing, which is where you put the thoughts where you brain stormed and put them down as in sentences and phrases that begin to shape your writing. Re-writing t into another paper can help you see the mistakes you make or help you see where you wrote something that didn’t make sense or where you wrote something that was all ready written, repeating yourself can cause the audience to get confused. There are more than just those steps that need to be done to create a better writing paper, like revising for grammar and punctuation or revising for the tone can help the audience understand the point and the feelings that the writer is trying to peruse the audience see. There are many ways a writer can use Revision Strategies, from the basic steps of revising to the details of grammar and punctuation which can be as important as the tone and voice the writer is trying to put down on paper.

Nancy Sommers Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 31, No.4 (Dec.1980), Pg 378-388

Question:


What are the revision strategies of experienced writers found in Sommers’s studies? What can you learn from those strategies?



Response:

When the student’s writers revise their work they have a different concept and idea of doing it rather than the experienced writers. Student writers start off with “review” to the review is going back and taking out words that are not needed and scratching out things that don’t make sense and moving things around in the written work. Redoing is going back and making sure that everything in the written work makes sense, redoing to the student writers means cleaning up the paper. Marking out is changing and scratching out words and adding different once. The students don’t use “rewriting because I only write one draft and the changes I make are made on top of the draft”(page 381). The last step to them is “Slashing and Throwing out”, which means to throw things out because they are not good. Experienced writes don’t only write one draft they tend to do four drafts and two revising before writing their last paper. In their draft they do things like reviewing every word and make sure that everything is worded right, they eliminate words that aren’t needed. The steps that experienced writers use are “Scratch out and do over again”, “reviewing”, “redoing”, “marking out”, and slashing and throwing out” before doing their final paper. I learned that the students, when writing a paper they tend to do it as fast as possible to get it done with. Students write their paper once and change the words and faces to make sense and to stay on topic. Experienced writers do their paper many times to understand and perfect their paper for their final draft.