Revise & Resubmit

Revise & Resubmit Major Project Guidelines

During the semester, you are given a chance to revise and resubmit one of the major projects if your score is below 90 for that assignment. The revised major project should be submitted for regrading before April 30, midnight (Arizona time). You can see the detailed steps for revise and resubmit policy.

**Please note that revising and resubmitting your work does not guarantee a change in the grade; it depends on your meaningful and successful revision of the paper, the overall performance in the paper, and careful and detailed completion of all of the steps below. You can discuss the process/ your questions/ concerns with me in advance.

Revise & Resubmit Instructions

If you would like to revise and resubmit a major project, you will be required to complete four (4) steps.

1. Review Option: You must complete one of the review options listed below. When you resubmit your revised project, you need to include the documentation/reflection from the review option.

2. Revision Reflection: You must include a document that discusses the details of what you changed and why you changed it. Provide details of the changes you made and discuss the reasons in terms of how the changes make the document better meet the rhetorical situation (especially the purpose and the audience) and the rubric criteria.

3. Unprompted Revision: At least one of your revisions must be something that was unprompted by the grader’s comments. In your revision reflection, be sure to articulate which change was unprompted.

4. Comparison of Revised Text: You must submit a “compared” version of the original and revised text. You will need to have access to Microsoft Word to make the comparison. In my version of Word, I go to “tools,” “track changes,” and then “compare documents.” If you have a different version, you should be able to find instructions within the application or online. The resulting document should use Word’s track changes feature to show the differences.

When you are ready to resubmit your revised major project to the D2L Assignment folder with the file name “Revised & Resubmitted”, email the instructor (Dilara Avci) to notify. You’ll also need to submit all the other required reflections, comparisons etc. from the steps above.

Review Options

Re-Vision is actually “Re-seeing” or seeing again. We generally get too close to our own writing to clearly re-see it in a meaningful way. The following revision options will allow you to step back and re-see your paper through the eyes, or ears, of others.

● Option One: Audio Recording ● Option Two: Writing Center ● Option Three: Ask A Librarian ● Option Four: Peer Review ● Option Five: Other Instructor Review ● Option Six: Paragraph Analysis ● Option Seven: Paramedic Method ● Option Eight: Tighten Wordy Sentences ● Option Nine: Google Translation

Option One: Audio Recording

Reading our work out loud allows us to “hear” things about our writing that we might otherwise be unable to “see” with our eyes. For this revision option, audio record yourself as you read a double-spaced page of your paper out loud. Then, listen to your recording and use the following questions to help you reflect on what you hear. Make sure to jot downloaded notes!

● As you read your paper, did you immediately notice things in need of changing? ● Are there any word choices that “sound” incorrect and need changing? ● Does the tone of your voice reflect the content of the written paper? ● Do you notice any grammar concerns? ● Are there any sentence structures that “sound” awkward and need changing? ● Are there any ideas that are unclear to you as you listen? ● Do your ideas flow easily and transition smoothly? ● What, if anything, surprised you as you listened to yourself read your own writing?

Now, write a reflection in which you discuss your responses to these questions (or other responses you had while listening). What revisions will you make as a result of this process? Make sure to post a link to your audio recording within the reflection document. You will either need to upload a copy of your audio file, or use an web-based audio sharing application like SoundCloud (which also has a wonderful mobile application to easily record and upload audio).

Option Two: Writing Center

Make an appointment to work with a tutor in the Writing Center. When you go for your appointment, be sure to take both your draft of the assignment as well as a written analysis of the rhetorical situation of the document (consider the assignment prompt). If you visit the Writing Center for your revision option, be sure to include the following information in your reflection:

● date & time of the appointment; ● name of the tutor; ● general summary of what you discussed; ● brief description of specific elements of your project you will change based on your

tutoring session; and

● brief description of the writing and revising strategies you and your tutor discussed; include ideas about whether or not you would use this strategy in future writing scenarios.

● Screenshot of the email confirmation of the appointment

Option Three: Ask A Librarian

If you feel part of your revision process would benefit from help by a librarian, feel free to meet with a librarian. Specifically, you should be in a space where you need help identifying new, different, or more resources to help construct your argument and/or refutation. Before meeting with a librarian, be sure to have the following information prepared:

● specific ideas of what type of information you need and why you need it, ● a description of what type of information you already have, how you found it, and how

you are currently using it within your project. As a part of your reflection, you are also required to submit your preparation notes (addressing the two prompts above).

Your reflection also needs to include the following information: ● date, time, & location of the appointment; ● name of the librarian; ● general summary of what you discussed; ● brief description of specific elements of your project you will change based on your

session; and ● brief description of the research strategies you and the librarian discussed; include ideas

about whether or not you would use this strategy in future writing and research scenarios.

● Screenshot of the email confirmation of the appointment

Option Four: Peer Review

Having another set of eyes reading your paper is always a good thing. To complete this revision option, have another individual who is not in in the course:

1. read the assignment prompt and/or written rhetorical situation about your document and then

2. read through your revised paper to provide you with an additional perspective on how you can improve.

This person could be a friend, a family member, or a peer from another class. The person who reads your paper should not correct your paper or rewrite any part for you. Provide your reviewer with the same peer review prompts we used in class:

● Three specific questions you want your reviewer to answer about your draft. ● What did you like about the draft? Why? ● Where were you confused? What questions do you have about why you are confused? ● Where would you like to know more? What more would you like to know? ● Does the draft complete everything requested in the assignment prompt/rhetorical

situation? What is missing? What other content might be revised to better improve the document?

If you are doing peer review for your revision option, be sure to include the following information in your reflection:

● date, time, and location of the working session; ● name of the of the person who reviewed your draft;

● general summary of what you discussed; and ● a brief description of specific elements of your project you will change based on your

working session. ● Screenshot of the email or text message for scheduling the peer-review session

Option Five: Other Instructor Review

You can meet with one of the other “graders” for ENL 108 to talk through your comments and revision plan. You will know who graded your project and left comments. If you choose this option, you have to meet with another ENGL 108 instructors.

If you are doing other instructor review for your revision option, be sure to include the following information in your reflection:

● date, time, and location of the working session; ● name of the of the person who reviewed your draft; ● general summary of what you discussed; and ● a brief description of specific elements of your project you will change based on your

working session. ● Screenshot of the email or text message for scheduling the review session

Option Six: Paragraph Analysis

1. Make a copy of your current draft of a research project. 2. For EVERY paragraph in the draft, answer the following questions:

○ What is the main topic of this paragraph? ○ How does this paragraph function in the argument/arrangement of the paper? ○ How is this paragraph connected to the one above? ○ How is this paragraph connected to the one below?

3. After completing this analysis, briefly reflect about what you learned. What sections of your paper will you revise? How? Why?

Option Seven: Paramedic Method

1. Read/review a few resources explaining the Paramedic editing Method. ○ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/635/01/ ○ http://people.vetmed.wsu.edu/jmgay/courses/documents/TheParamedicMethod.p

df ○ https://youtu.be/XNo3v-pDtqE ○ https://www.lakeforest.edu/live/files/1759-the-paramedic-method-51513pdf

2. Copy and paste the two longest paragraphs in your paper to a new word processing document.

3. Use the Paramedic Method to edit the two paragraphs. 4. After editing the two paragraphs, briefly reflect about what you learned. What trends did

you notice in your writing? What will you go back and try to fix in the rest of the paragraphs in your paper?

Option Eight: Tighten Wordy Sentences

1. Read/review a few resources about tightening up your writing.

○ http://www.powa.org/index.php/revise/tightening ○ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/600/01/ ○ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/572/01/

2. Copy and paste the three longest paragraphs in your paper to a new word processing document.

3. Use the tightening strategies at the websites above to edit the three paragraphs. 4. After editing the three paragraphs, briefly reflect about what you learned. What trends

did you notice in your writing? What will you go back and try to fix in the rest of the paragraphs in your paper?

Option Nine: Google Translation

Only try this option if you are fluent in reading another language. Obviously you should never trust software that translates documents; however, comparing how the software translates your document might give you some good ideas for revision. Try uploading your document to Google Docs. Within Docs go to “Tools” and then “Translate document” and select the language. Once you have both versions of the document, carefully compare and contrast the meaning being conveyed across the documents. Whenever there seems to be a disconnect between what is being conveyed in the two documents, take that as an opportunity to rethink and possibly revise.