Remember, revising is the third stage of our writing process. In terms of the total time spent on a writing project, it should make up 50%-60% of the efforts.
As a part of our revision process for this paper, we participated in a peer review. We said that a peer review can be beneficial in many ways. Here is your chance to reflect on how our peer review can help or has helped you revise your draft.
Please respond to the following questions in your comment:
- How have you revised in the past? Did you spend 50% of your time on this process?
- Name and explain two strengths that the peer review revealed about your paper.
- Name and explain two things that the peer review exposed about your paper that needed improvement.
- Other than peer review, what revision technique(s) will you use for this paper or in the future
1. In the past the way I've revised my papers were simply by just hitting the spell check button, that was my definition of revising. I would say I spent spent about 5% on actually revising time.
ReplyDelete2.The first strength that the peer review exposed about my paper was that it was cohesive it flowed very well, my idea's all came together everything made sense. Secondly my use of examples from the story gave my paper concrete evidence to back my thesis statement.
3. Two things that the peer viewed exposed about my paper that I needed improvement was one, my conclusion meaning it did not use techniques to keep the reader thinking.For the second thing I needed to improve was having my paper in MLA format, which basically is the format most papers need to be.
4.Another revision technique I will use in the future is Proof Reading and Scissoring. I find both techniques useful and the scissoring one seems like a challenge and I'm interested to see how it turns out.
Kristen Cartner
ReplyDelete1.In the past I didn't do very much revision, just spell check and making sure everything was grammar correct and spaced properly.
2.My peer said that my introduction was catchy and grabbed the readers attention, and that i had a clearly stated single-sentence argument and that I placed it at the end as the last sentence like advised.
3.The peer pointed out that my flowing thoughts could be improved, that I go into detail and lose my thought sometimes. Also that my concrete details could be explained in more detail.
4.Other than peer review I will use my own review of the paper as a revision technique. Reread it after writing and try and correct anything that sounds different than what I was trying to get across.
1. In the past I haven’t really revised my papers as much as I should. I simply typed the paper from scratch and quickly re- read the whole thing over just once to fix minor mistakes. With using this process I clearly did not spend 50% of my time revising like I should have. I now have found out that this process is much more beneficial and will be used when writing every single paper.
ReplyDelete2. Two strengths that the peer review revealed about my paper was that it made me get different suggestions on what to write and correcting my silly mistakes that sounded all right to me. I am very glad we got the time to do these peer reviews so that my paper could be improved.
3. Two things that the peer review exposed about my paper that needed improvement were fixing my run on sentences and my choice of words. Having other people read my paper suggesting things that I could tweak my paper with has definitely helped me with my run on sentences and choice of words.
4. Besides using the peer review, the revision techniques that I will use in future papers will be steps we went over including unity, development, organization and sentence- level- skills. All of these skills have greatly helped me when revising my recent papers. Never will I ever use another technique in revising papers.
For past revisions I have mostly focused on all the spelling and grammar. I also focused a little on making sure how things fit but I most likely never really focused as much as I should have on those types of problems during revisions. I do not believe I spent anywhere near 50 percent of my time when writing the paper on just the revision process. One of the strengths that this peer revision helped to point out would be that I am able to create a well organized paper that didn’t need much revising in that area. Another strength that I noticed would be that I can find the details that are needed to support my thesis and successfully place them in my paper. The peer revision also helped to point out some of my weaknesses. One of these weaknesses would be the need to realize where to split one large paragraph into two smaller ones. Another weakness would be that finishing the conclusion before the revising process can be helpful so that the reader can see the wrapping up of your ideas. As for the future I will try to use the scissors method on other papers. That sounds like a very useful strategy because it will help with the way everything flows which can always be a useful thing to have.
ReplyDeleteBy Steven Foulkrod
1. Previously, my revision tactics for a paper included spell check, and skimming through the paper for any red underlined words or incredibly long run-ons. I did not spend a lot of time on past revisions. It usually took about ten maybe fifteen minutes but that was kind of stretching it.
ReplyDelete2. From the peer review time i realized two of my greatest strengths for the paper. First of all, it showed that i gave the reader a catchy topic sentence therefore intriguing the reader to keep reading. Secondly, i gave sufficient details to back up my theories.
3. The peer revision brought to my attention that i need to work on constructing my paragraphs. By that i simply mean that i need to learn how to divide paragraphs that don't flow and combining paragraphs that correlate. Another weakness i have is my conclusion. I struggle tying my ideas up in one and concluding sentence.
4. From now on i will try to use other revision methods such as the scissoring method. It seems kind of lengthy but it will definitely give me better results when it comes to my final draft score.