paper writing for Hifsa Shaukat

The Revision Paper

The word “revision” literally means to “re-see.” For your Unit IV assignment, therefore, you will be asked to “re-see” and “re-compose” one of your Final Drafts for any of the previous units. You are free to choose any essay/project to revise, but be aware that you are required to do substantial changes for your revision paper. A good rule of thumb might be that you should have at least two pages of new or rewritten text (or the equivalent effort in non-linguistic mediums).

Accompanying your revision paper will be a 1 to 2 page reflection paper, wherein you discuss how you went about revising your original essay—the choices you made, the problems you tried to address—in other words, where and why you added new text, where and why you deleted old, where and why you changed existing text.

Aside from following the suggestions in my comments, some additional directions for revision might be any of the following:

1. Changing the audience (perhaps you’d like to revise your analysis essay or your multimodal project for a different audience, for example, either a more specific or broader audience, younger or older, etc.).

2. Change or add a genre or change or add a medium. Perhaps there was a part of your analysis essay that would be better explained with the inclusion of a graph or other visual? Perhaps one of our projects would benefit from the addition of a narrative genre?

3. Major style revision. Make you text sound better/more academic/more poetic/clearer/more fit for your audience. If you are only doing style revision, it needs to be pretty substantial.

4. Organize your text differently and/or add significant examples, analysis or conclusions.

Though your reflection paper should discuss the specific changes you made, you should also bold, underline, or otherwise mark all new or altered text in your revisions and note any deletions or reorganizations in your reflection paper.

Your revision is evaluated as a separate paper unto itself. It does not automatically receive a higher grade than the original simply because it is a revision.

Your Unit IV papers are due on Blackboard by finals week (Dec 17th), at the latest. No physical copy is required.

(Total project: 100 points)