WHY IS REVISION IMPORTANT?

Writing is a process of discovery, and you don’t always produce your best stuff when you first get started. So revision is a chance for you to look critically at what you have written to see how you can improve, change, delete and add content to your writing. Revision literally means to “see again,” to look at something from a fresh, critical perspective. It is an ongoing process of rethinking the paper: reconsidering your arguments, reviewing your evidence, refining your purpose, reorganizing your presentation, reviving stale prose.

After revision in your essay, you can move forward to editing and proofreading. It’s an important step before turning your paper in, but if your ideas are predictable, your thesis is weak, and your organization is a mess, then proofreading will just be putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. When you finish revising, that's the time to proofread and edit any mistakes.

Topics

Revising, Editing and Proofreading

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

identify basic editing/proofreading marks, meanings and examples
proofread writings to find convention errors
edit writings to correct convention errors
collaborate with peers in group of 3-4 to edit 3 sample essays
produce final writings without surface-level convention errors that distract readers from purpose of the writing

Task List

In order to achieve these learning outcomes, please make sure to complete the following:

complete the readings, videos, and resources
complete the writing assignments
observe, analyze, and discuss peers’ projects
submit all assignments and peer review feedback