This piece pretty much summed up my whole experience with revision.  For the longest time, I really didn’t find revising useful.  One of the main reasons why is because I was always able to get away with writing I had done the night before.  I was able to get praise on that writing never received any level of revision.  Looking back at what I used to write and what I’ve been able put out recently,  there is no hiding the huge discrepancy in the levels of writing.  The one’s that underwent multiple stages of revision had elements in them that I never really thought I was capable of.  While revision may be time time consuming, understanding what you can get out of it is what makes it worth it.  It was the lack of said understanding that made my past experiences with revision so unproductive.  A lot of what Deither points touched on in the section about understanding are something I look to add to my own revision. Just as the piece said, “seeing is believing.”