My takeaway was that revisions and writing is greatly affected by your mindset. We unconsciously revise our words before they are spoken, our text messages before they are sent. But it’s suddenly so difficult to apply it to academic texts. I can argue that writing is instead affected by your skills, or partly. It’s not easy to write demanding papers, but I do believe that it’s more about the writer’s mindset, something I did not realize until after reading this text. Deither greatly emphasizes on how your attitude towards revisions is crucial for editing.

Deither also provides various reasons of why revisions are helpful. His first reason was the most insightful. The writer should be writing for himself and to improve himself, not for others. Revisions allows you to revisit ideas you had previously entertained, Personally, to make my writing more enjoyable I picked a topic that resonated within me, which was a video game. If you enjoy a game, then you should enjoy writing about the game. Focusing on this positive feeling will make the writing appear less like a chore and more as an activity I would enjoy doing. I find it difficult to revise my own writing unless there is feedback from others. I would not say that it’s because I’m biased towards my own paper. But because I feel like I have expressed my ideas in a professional and formal manner, and these are not always the most effective methods of conveying ideas.