When I think about revising my writing, I generally think about re-reading my first draft and changing the structure of some of the sentences but leaving the main purpose of my paper intact.  When revising my first English paper in high school, I did not have to change much about the paper.  I made revisions to the way some sentences were worded in order to make the paper sound better.  From this process, I learned how to improve my writing skills.  Revising is generally considered to be a process of re-considering your entire paper.  In this process, writers will often add, delete, or substitute words or sentences into their works.  Editing is the process of making sure one’s paper has consistency throughout.  Finally, proofreading is a process in which writers take a close look at the spelling in their paper and make sure there are no mistakes.  I think Brock Dethier’s piece on revision was very well written.  I thought it was interesting to see how he brought in more modern concepts like music to relate to his readers.  This comparison made thinking of revision much easier for me as a writer.  One point in the resistance to revision section that I would have agreed with would have been that revision is unnecessary.  Like Dethier says, if one can get a good grade on a paper they wrote the night before their paper is due, then why should they take the time to revise a paper they have already written.  The process of revising, however, has allowed me to see the benefit of revising and I am surprisingly not as opposed to revising as I once was.