Reference no: EM133382521

Revision Plan for an Essay

Task: Choose the Six Source Essay or the Multi-Source Literature Review, and write a revision plan which either discusses the changes that you made from the Six Source Essay to the Multi-Source Literature Review, or outlines the changes you will make to the Multi-Source LIterature Review and the reasons why you will make those changes. This document should be finished prior to turning in the final draft of the Multi-Source Essay. Please incorporate feedback from the instructor and one other reader.

Length: 500 words (2 double-spaced pages)

Format: APA 7

Point of View: The revision plan will use the first-person point of view.

One of the mistakes that new writers make is rushing to the end of the writing process. There is a reason that writers turn in drafts of their work. There is a reason that writers revise. Writing is a recursive process. A writer may return to a draft more than once to add, refine, eliminate, and polish it. Furthermore, a revision is more than an editing process. It is more than addressing sentence-level errors, typos, and awkward sentences. Revising asks a writer to "re-see" the work on the page, to think about it critically, and to alter the work in a substantial way. Having a plan to revise can streamline the process of revising the essay.

Here are some suggestions to help a writer to develop a revision plan:

1. When developing a revision plan, a writer should develop detailed notes on the feedback received on the initial draft. A writer might develop a plan based on revising multiple specific aspects of the essay, including, for example, the thesis statement. So, deciding to revise a thesis statement might involve a discussion of the feedback given to the writer about the thesis, a description of what the thesis says and does in the current draft, and how the thesis might improve. A good plan might involve all those ideas. It is a good idea to look at as many aspects of the current draft as possible when developing a revision plan.

2. A writer should carefully evaluate the feedback on the first draft. The paper is the creation of the writer. While targeted feedback is often essential to developing drafts, it is a writer's choice which feedback is useful. Discerning which feedback will be incorporated into a new draft is part of developing as a writer.

3. A writer should create specific solutions for problems with the draft. So, if a draft receives feedback that the thesis of the draft was unclear, that more evidence was necessary, and that the draft was disorganized, the writer will create a detailed plan about the steps needed to correct these issues.