- In my essay that I posted for my significant writing assignment, I carried out my typical revision practice. I hand write my essay initially, and while I type it into the draft that I hand in, I make global edits. I change the organization of my paragraphs and make sure the order is how I see best fit. After I type everything the first time, I look through and make sure my quote use and introduction for each quote is done well. Next, I look at my claim sentences and thesis just to make sure that they do a good job of emphasizing my argument. I let spell check and microsoft’s grammar check take care of any grammatical errors. Sommers describes student’s editing as thesaurus philosophy of writing.” She says that we, students, focus on local edits and changing singular words rather than whole parts of our paper. I have never done this, and disagree with her. As for how this relates to learning outcome 1, I have always viewed writing as a recursive process. I always look to make changes upon my initial draft, and then more changes, and so on to make the best piece possible. I do this with any work that I do, not just English, and have always done it.
