Blog Post #5: Dominic Lopez

 

        This week, there are several things that have intrigued me in the readings and that I think would be interesting to analyze further: 

-I think that the method Lindemann introduces in chapter 12 of the book of teachers sharing their own writing with students when teaching them how to rewrite and revise their papers would be very effective (Lindemann 195). Teachers can even show them a draft that we had before we revised it and ask them to identify areas where the piece could be improved. Afterwards, they can show them how we ended up revising it and compare their methods of rewriting with ours and see what they can learn on how to develop better techniques for revising and revision. Another way of doing this is for teachers to share the draft and then the other drafts and final product so that they can see the revision process step-by-step and see what changes and decisions you made. This will help them see that revision is a necessary step in writing a piece and to not be so afraid of attempting to revise their own writing. 

-In the Sommers article, I liked her assertion that rewriting and revision is more than just trying to use bigger words or different phrases in the next draft as students often believe. There are many ways you can revise a draft, such as discovering what your argument should be instead, and which ideas should be further developed and which should be removed. It is also more than fixing the grammar, syntax, or spelling (this is more editing than revision). It can mean taking some time away from the paper and coming back to it later to see which ideas or language use you might have originally liked but seeing now what doesn’t work or something more you can add. What other ways can we discover that will improve a draft? That is something a writer should always be looking for while rewriting. 

-I never thought about before the idea from Elbow and Belanoff’s piece of sharing with your readers when looking for feedback on your writing which aspects of your writing they should give feedback on. This seems like it would be very useful since it forces the writer to read and reread their writing to see what they need to improve or remove in their written piece. It gives the reader critiquing their writing guidelines for what they should be looking for while reading your writing so that it’s easier for them to recognize when there are issues with that particular area of the writing and to think of suggestions for fixing those issues. I do think that it’s important however to let the person reading your paper to find areas in your paper that can improve on their own because another person reading your paper can often find issues that are there that you aren’t initially aware of.  

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