{"id":3185,"date":"2018-07-25T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T19:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-wm-englishcomposition1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=3185"},"modified":"2018-08-28T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T17:07:58","slug":"revision-overview","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-esc-englishcomposition1-2\/chapter\/revision-overview\/","title":{"raw":"Revision Overview","rendered":"Revision Overview"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-2899 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3033\/2016\/07\/16200336\/CW-OER-revision-overview2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;analysis&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\r\n\r\nRevising is the most important part of the writing process. Although you may feel that you\u2019re done when you finish your draft \u2013 a well-deserved feeling of accomplishment \u2013 you still need to go back to your draft with \u201cfresh eyes,\u201d after you have set it aside for a short time. Revision actually means \u201cre-seeing.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe purpose of revision is to go back to your draft with a reader\u2019s instead of a writer\u2019s perspective, to move your draft to a more final form. Revision requires you to analyze your writing, asking, answering, and addressing the following questions as best as you can, as you refine your draft:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Is the thesis clearly identifiable? Does it have a clear topic and angle or argument, appropriate for the writing\u2019s purpose and audience?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Are the topic sentences clearly identifiable? Does each unit of support have a topic sentence? Does each topic sentence have a clear topic and angle that relates to and extracts an idea from the thesis\u2019 angle?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Are the units of support logically organized, appropriate to the thesis and your purpose and audience?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Are paragraphs and units of support fully developed with details, examples, and support relevant and appropriate to your purpose and thesis?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is language use and sentence structure clear, varied, and correct?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAs you ask and answer these questions, you may find that you need to revise some or much of the essay draft, even including your thesis sentence. What\u2019s more likely, though, is that you\u2019ll need to tweak and rewrite portions of your essay draft, as you make sure that what you have written is well developed, logically ordered, and clearly expressed.\r\n\r\nSo, how to you revise? There\u2019s one main thing to keep in mind when revising: revise from \u201cbig\u201d to \u201csmall.\u201d\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3881\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3033\/2018\/07\/22130416\/revision-process-1024x606.png\" alt=\"Diagram: Inverted triangle with three bands - top band &quot;purpose and audience, thesis and topic sentence idea order; middle band - idea development; lower band - sentences and words\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe following video offers a quick overview of the revision process, moving from \"big\" concepts\u00a0 to \"small\" sentence and language items.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/youtu.be\/ezI42BqJ4d4[\/embed]","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2899 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3033\/2016\/07\/16200336\/CW-OER-revision-overview2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;analysis&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Revising is the most important part of the writing process. Although you may feel that you\u2019re done when you finish your draft \u2013 a well-deserved feeling of accomplishment \u2013 you still need to go back to your draft with \u201cfresh eyes,\u201d after you have set it aside for a short time. Revision actually means \u201cre-seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of revision is to go back to your draft with a reader\u2019s instead of a writer\u2019s perspective, to move your draft to a more final form. Revision requires you to analyze your writing, asking, answering, and addressing the following questions as best as you can, as you refine your draft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the thesis clearly identifiable? Does it have a clear topic and angle or argument, appropriate for the writing\u2019s purpose and audience?<\/li>\n<li>Are the topic sentences clearly identifiable? Does each unit of support have a topic sentence? Does each topic sentence have a clear topic and angle that relates to and extracts an idea from the thesis\u2019 angle?<\/li>\n<li>Are the units of support logically organized, appropriate to the thesis and your purpose and audience?<\/li>\n<li>Are paragraphs and units of support fully developed with details, examples, and support relevant and appropriate to your purpose and thesis?<\/li>\n<li>Is language use and sentence structure clear, varied, and correct?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you ask and answer these questions, you may find that you need to revise some or much of the essay draft, even including your thesis sentence. What\u2019s more likely, though, is that you\u2019ll need to tweak and rewrite portions of your essay draft, as you make sure that what you have written is well developed, logically ordered, and clearly expressed.<\/p>\n<p>So, how to you revise? There\u2019s one main thing to keep in mind when revising: revise from \u201cbig\u201d to \u201csmall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3881\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3033\/2018\/07\/22130416\/revision-process-1024x606.png\" alt=\"Diagram: Inverted triangle with three bands - top band &quot;purpose and audience, thesis and topic sentence idea order; middle band - idea development; lower band - sentences and words\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The following video offers a quick overview of the revision process, moving from &#8220;big&#8221; concepts\u00a0 to &#8220;small&#8221; sentence and language items.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Three-step revision process\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezI42BqJ4d4?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-3185\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Revision Overview. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Susan Oaks. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Empire State College, SUNY OER Services. <strong>Project<\/strong>: College Writing. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC: Attribution-NonCommercial<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>image of magnifying 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