REVISION STRATEGIES OF STUDENT WRITERS

1) Sommer argues that revision is an activity in which you are able to modify and develop perspectives and ideas. She also believes that the process of revision is to discover meaning. If revision was a rewording activity, the essay itself would not change for the better. Rewording is just taking our the words and replacing them with something bigger and that is not discovering the meaning of your writing.

3) I think that Sommers is trying to point out that there in no possible way to revise a speech, but you can revise writing. In a speech what is said is said, there is no going back and making it sound better. The spoken word can not be revised. While in writing you have the opportunity too revise. The reason it is relevant to revision is because knowing the difference gives you the capability to use it.




5) When Sommers mentions that experienced writers view the writing process to be non-linear, not a straight line from beginning to end I think it means that they do as they please while writing. Experienced writers jot down ideas and then try to put them in order and edit as they go. Writing does not have a certain order you are made to go by, there are steps to help you get to where you need to be, but if you do not go " pre-write-write-edit" your paper will not be horrible. I think the reason that students see as linear meaning to go from pre- write to write to edit is because they were taught that way. Students are most of the time made to make an outline and turn it in, make a rough draft and get corrections or make your own correction and then write the final essay. I think that students are trained to write in a linear way, once you are out of college you have the freedom to write in which ever order you please.

7) I think that students got the idea that writing is transcribing and revising is rewording from teacher who were not very good or from themselves. Some teachers do not give much information on revising when they are in the process of teaching it, they focus more on the idea to have 5 paragraphs, an introductory, 3 body, and a conclusion . So when students get a paper back and they have the opportunity to revise it, they do not know what to do. Students assume that changing the words to more difficult vocabulary will meet the standards of revising. That is pretty much what I was taught, to fix any or all grammatical issues and change some words.