Revising Attitudes

What comes to mind when I think of “revising” my writing, is completely doing my paper over. I remember in my senior year of high school, I had to revise a comparative analysis. The process was extremely arduous. I ended up rewriting the entire paper. Although the process was a huge pain, the paper did turn out very well. Revising is changing anything that needs to be changed in terms of context. Editing is more focused on grammatical changes. Proofreading is going through the paper after both have been done to ensure that there are no more mistakes. I completely agree with Brock Dethier, mainly because I can relate to his writing. I dread revising papers. Like number 7 under “Resistance to Revision”, I “don’t have time to revise”. That is the main reason for my negative attitude towards revision. I feel that it takes way too long to revise my papers.