ENG-123 English Composition II Module 6-3 Revision Strategies
REVISION STRATEGIES
After completing the first draft of your persuasive essay, the next step is . When revisingrevision
your essay, consider how your essay’s could be organization, content, and grammar
improved. During the revision stage, you will likely read and reread portions of your essay
repeatedly. Furthermore, you will likely overhaul entire sections of your paper, returning to the
draft phase and then proceeding to revise once again.
GENERAL TIPS FOR REVISION
Before beginning revising your essay, it is helpful to consider the following general tips for
revision. These tips can apply to any writing assignment. You will get plenty of practice in
making and changes to strengthen your writing and clarify your ideas, large-scale small-scale
but this page should help you to create the conditions for embarking on the kind of self-
assessment that is part of the revision process.
1. Get some distance from your paper. Set your draft aside for a while, preferably
overnight or longer. When you reread it, try to assume your audience’s perspective, and
read your work with fresh eyes.
2. In order to get the distance you need, you will have to give yourself plenty of time to
revise. wait until the night before a paper is due to attempt revisions. Instead, try Do not
to finish writing your draft at least a few days before the deadline so that you have time to
reread and make the necessary large-scale and small-scale changes.
3. Use the in your document to locate important parts of your essay, highlighting function
such as the , the the , and the .thesis body paragraphs, opposing viewpoint conclusion
4. Read your paper aloud! It is often easier to the parts of your draft that need hear
clarification or correction than it is to them. Reading your paper aloud will help you see
locate the sentence-level changes that need to be made and the places where your writing
is confusing or unclear.
LARGE-SCALE REVISIONS
After ensuring that your argument addresses the right content to meet your purpose, it is
