(Recursive Process) – Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).
At the beginning of the semester I did not realize how much my perspective on revision would change. But right from the jump Prof. Brod expressed how English 110 will have a strong focus in revision. In high school I did not take rough drafts seriously at all, I would just skim through the prompt and get something down on the page and then put it away until it was time to start working on final draft. But in English 110 I would read through the prompt carefully and take my time writing a rough draft with strong ideas to build off of and it really propelled my essays in a great way.
My thesis statements through the semester, to me, were strong for each essay. It came easy to me to construct, and it was always very organized and worded well. In high school I was not as good at writing thesis statements because in high school we weren’t able to use the letter “I”anywhere in our pieces. Be able to use “I” really made it easy for me to get my point across to the reader. Now how does this have to do with revision? The reason is when I am revising I am always looking back to my thesis to see if it connects back, so it was important that I always had a strong functioning thesis.
As the semester went on, I figured out a great way of revising my essays. First, having a peer look over my essay and offer insight into things I should add or take out really helped with the flow of essays as well as the organization. Second, I would take the revision of my peer to heart and really dig deep into Global revision and the big parts of my essays. The book “They Say, I Say” helped me with this in terms of quote sandwiches, transitions, and naysayers.
Naysayers were not a big part of my first two essays but the last essay I added one and it helped structure my essay very well. The Image attached is an example of naysayer in essay 3.
This paragraph I added while revising my essay and Im so glad that I went back and added this part. My peer commented on one of my paragraphs and told me to think about adding a naysayer and I did not even consider it until I went back into revision.
The revising of my peers and helping me think of other ideas to add to my essay, as said earlier helped me a great amount. An example of this is attached below.
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