We 've all heard the clichés, senior year is supposed to be the year where it all comes together, but I really believe its were it all starts. Senior year at my former high school was a big year, it was when the biggest and most important projects were given. I was placed on the Revision Project team, Revision Project is a design consulting firm that caters to the San Diego community for no cost. That meant we, as high school students, worked in teams to communicate with professionals, develop their project for them, and deliver a finished piece at the end. Personally, I was given the lead role as group leader. This meant I had to be in constant contact with the owner and different workers of a company we were working for. Being fair, I had already had the chance to develop my professional communication skills during my Junior year internship at a local La Jolla company. However, communicating with real world professionals is one of the most daunting tasks you can do as a young person, especially in high school. I remember that we…
most part in high school the revisions I made were small, after all my rough drafts always seemed to be really good. This is definitely no longer the case. My first rough draft is sometimes not even the one I turn in as a rough draft. During the illustration essay I even found myself having to restart the writing process during the second week. After revisions and rereading the assignment I realized my rough draft was not what was being asked for. Several points were kept from the draft but the…
Revision is rarely implemented as a part of the experience of executing the actions described by the writing. The revision of the writing should occur immediately after action occurs. Revision of the writing is a manifestation of the decision-making and communication process of the business. The decision to change must result in a written revision immediately available to all involved…
completed assignment 7-1 Reading: Revision Strategies completed assignment 7-2 Small Group Discussion: Implementing Multiple Revision Strategies (GRADED) completed assignment 7-3 Activity: Revision Process (GRADED) Activity: Revision Process (GRADED) NOTE: This activity will be graded based on completion. contemplating revisions Now that you've read about the revision process and utilized the reverse outlining process to inform your revisions, let's apply what you've discovered to your…
College Level Well known for her research and publications on student writing, Nancy Sommers—now Harvard’s Expository Writing Program Director—discusses revision strategies in the journal College Composition and Communication. Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on three articles: “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (1980), “Between the Drafts” (1992), and finally, “the Novice as Expert” (2004) which she wrote alongside Laura Saltz. Revision Strategies…
For my final revision project, I decided to revise my fist essay “The Visible Cancer”. The reason I chose to edit this essay was the special connection that I had to it. When writing this essay, I was very invested in telling the audience how I had felt and describing what had happened with my dad’s cancer as best as I could. In making these revisions I thought it would be a good way to look back on how I viewed the situation when I first wrote this right after it happened compared to how I feel…
Just as with any author of a book, I have my strengths and weaknesses which contribute to my style of writing, although my writing strengths imbalance the many weaknesses I feel I have as a writer. Throughout the course of this class, I learned that a good writer should write, revise, and rewrite as much as possible to generate an essay into its best shape. Through the intense brainstorming, structured outlining, and many revisions of my paper assignments, I have developed a sense of confidence…
IRE My writing career has consisted of write a subpar essay, turn it in, pass the class, repeat. Honestly, I dreaded taking this course, so I pushed it off to my sophomore year. However, my preconceived ideas about my lack of writing abilities were proved untrue. Not until this year, did I actually care about the topics I was writing about. It’s nice to have the opportunity to enjoy the writing process. For both papers, I had to work on organization of my paragraphs; for paper two, I focused on…
intimidating class. I felt like I wasn’t as prepared as I could have been because I had no previous college level experience. During the last eight weeks I now feel as though I have developed a strong sense of knowledge in English and writing. I feel like I have learned so much in such a short period of time and it has built confidence in my writing skills. Looking back on the beginning of the class, my grades have done nothing but improve. Also this course I have learned about what types of…
of writing a “shitty first draft”. In my midterm self-assessment, I discussed how I thought I was among one of the unlucky ones that was not blessed with natural writing skills. However, through class discussions, I’ve learned that one of the most important competent of professional writing is the need for constant revision. Contrary to popular believe, writing does not come easy to anyone. In order to successfully produce professional writing, it is important that one plan, draft, revise, and…