{"id":578,"date":"2021-03-30T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=578"},"modified":"2022-01-07T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:22:50","slug":"introduction-to-revising-for-coherence","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/chapter\/introduction-to-revising-for-coherence\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Revising for Coherence","rendered":"Introduction to Revising for Coherence"},"content":{"raw":"Prewriting and drafting stages focus primarily on getting the thoughts and ideas out of our heads and onto the paper.\u00a0 We don\u2019t worry too much about how they sound together or if they flow well, and we most likely aren\u2019t thinking much about our reader during that stage.\r\n\r\nThe revision stage, though, is where we want to consider our readers and what information they might need to understand the material.\u00a0 We look again at what we\u2019ve written to see if the ideas connect within the paragraph and across the essay in general. We might have forgotten a step in the process or have jumped from one idea to the next without providing a bridge.\u00a0 Revising for cohesion fixes those problems and smooths out the choppy points.\r\n\r\nEffective writing requires some sort of logical order between sentences and among paragraphs to make sense to readers, and this section helps you determine the best way to do that in your revision.","rendered":"<p>Prewriting and drafting stages focus primarily on getting the thoughts and ideas out of our heads and onto the paper.\u00a0 We don\u2019t worry too much about how they sound together or if they flow well, and we most likely aren\u2019t thinking much about our reader during that stage.<\/p>\n<p>The revision stage, though, is where we want to consider our readers and what information they might need to understand the material.\u00a0 We look again at what we\u2019ve written to see if the ideas connect within the paragraph and across the essay in general. 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