Reading blog #9

Main points

  1. Academic writing is a collaborative enterprise. 
  2. Revising - make changes to a paper to reflect new thinking or conceptualizing. 
  3. Editing - involves minor changes to what will be the final draft of a paper - replacing a word, correcting misspellings, or substituting dashes for commas to create emphasis, for example. 
  4. Composition pyramid - situation, issue, thesis, audience/organization, effective use of sources to support thesis/ style and grammar. (early, later and final)
  5. Ex. Brett needed to advance his argue while synthesize different author's pov ---- Brett restated his understanding of the assignment before reading his draft aloud = writer's interpretation of the assignment - helps the peer readers understand the writer's approach. 
  6. Present early draft -- focus on top level pyramid concerns - pay attention t the concerns the writer has explained in he cover letter and focus on the situation, issue, thesis and audience. 
  7. Later sage, state your thesis more definitively than you did in an early draft
Quotes
  • "Look the acknowledgements in any academic book, and you will see many people credited with having improved the book through their comments on drafts and ideas." (274)
    • Drafts and comments always improve people's writing through series of revisions and editing. 
  • "Don't just jump in and start telling the writer what he or she should be doing in the paper. Your role as a reader is to give the writer a live audience." (280)
    • Your response has to give the writer to decide on what parts to work on and the ones that need more revision. 
  • "Ideally, your readers will still provide construction criticism, offering their support, as in your first draft, but they will also question and challenge more than before."
    • Readers look for the mistakes which they will revise and edit your essay to make it stronger.
Question
How many times does a writer go through revision and editing before their writing is complete?

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