Response to “Revising Attitudes”
October 21, 2014 by c.yang
– When I think about revising my writing I think of me rereading my work while looking for mistakes like grammatical errors and evidential errors. So when I reread my writing I try to look for all of these mistakes. One time in high school I was revising my research paper and as I was rereading my paper I remembered looking through it first to find the grammatical errors that I made and then looking it over again to try and find all of my evidence and noting if my evidence made sense. If it didn’t make sense I would have to change the paper. Revising, editing and proof reading does accomplish a similar goal but they do different things. To revise your writing means that you are reading to make sure that the entire writing makes sense and that your writing makes total sense. To edit your writing is to read your writing and to look and fix the small specific mistakes like grammar and to proof read mans that you are reading your entire writing to make sure that everything is correct so that there are no errors and everything is coherent. As I read Brock Dethier’s piece on revision I noted that what he said about the negative attitude towards revising ones work does make sense and I know that revising your work in necessary even if you don’t like to revise your work. And as Dethier’s concludes his work he ends on a positive note by letting the reader know all the ways they can learn to revise their work with a positive attitude. When reading the negative attitudes one can have revising your work I related to some of them like how I don’t know how to revise my work correctly and because I believed revising was a waste of time, both of which I knew I had to get rid of because revising is important to complete your writing. I also notice how these negative attitudes are very realistic and possible.