Reference no: EM133793759
Homework: Religion- Research Project- Revisions & Summary
Overview
The purpose of this homework is to provide you with an opportunity to reexamine your argument, organization, research, and writing style and to make adjustments as needed. Additionally, this homework provides you with an opportunity to critically examine and apply the instructor's feedback to your writing. The measure of success for this homework will be a strong implementation of revision methods and a summary of revisions that demonstrates thoughtful and thorough application of instructor feedback and knowledge of revision principles as described in the course. Both the act of revision and reflection help to solidify your learning process in this course so that you move on to future studies with a stronger foundation for research and writing.
Instructions
This homework has three major components: (i) Implement revisions to the paper, (ii) use Track Changes to show the changes and (iii) provide a summary of the revision process answering the specific questions provided below.
Using the comments from the instructor and the principles of revision instructed in the course, revise your paper using Track Changes and resubmit it along with a summary of the revisions.
A. As you revise, remember to consider both components of revision as described in the course presentations: editing and polishing. This focus should improve the argumentation and organization (content) as well as the style, mechanics, and format (form).
B. Use the Track Changes feature in MS Word to show the changes that you made within the document.
C. Apply comments and corrections offered by the instructor as you revise.
D. The summary of revision should answer the following questions in 200 to 250 words:
a. What was the primary focus of the revision process in your paper?
b. How did you identify the primary foucs?
c. Did you apply any particular methods for revision (e.g., reading the paper aloud or backwards or executing a reverse outline)?
d. Were there any instructor comments or other areas of the paper that you chose not to address? If so, why did you omit those? How could you have addressed them?
e. What effect did the revisions have on your paper from your perspective?
E. The summary should be included in the Word document after the Bibliography page.
Module: Reflection on the Writing and Revision Process
Now that you have written your Research Paper, describe your experience. What did you find challenging? What was easier than you expected?