{"id":602,"date":"2021-03-30T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=602"},"modified":"2022-01-07T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:52:07","slug":"putting-it-together-revising-a-research-paper","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/chapter\/putting-it-together-revising-a-research-paper\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: Revising a Research Paper","rendered":"Putting It Together: Revising a Research Paper"},"content":{"raw":"<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Coherence<\/strong> in writing refers to the big picture of a text. Some strategies to revise your argument for coherence include <strong>reverse outlining<\/strong> and <strong>question outlining<\/strong> to check the logic and flow of your draft to ensure readers can see the big picture you are trying to create.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">One way to achieve <strong>paragraph coherence<\/strong> is to follow the ADVICE format:\u00a0 <strong>Announce<\/strong> the paragraph\u2019s main idea in the first sentence, <strong>Develop<\/strong> the core idea, <strong>Validate<\/strong> your claim, <strong>Interpret<\/strong> that evidence, <strong>Conclude<\/strong>, and <strong>Extend<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Clear writing<\/strong> is effortless reading that makes you want to read more. It is clear and concise, uses short sentences and simple words. It keeps to the facts and is easy to read and to understand.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Readers expect sentences to deliver information using a certain predictable structure. In order to make your sentences clear and easy to understand, <strong>align<\/strong> the main character and action with the main subject and verb.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Appreciation<\/strong> <strong>feedback<\/strong> typically lets the writer know that they\u2019re doing a good job and are, as the name implies, appreciated. You use <strong>coaching<\/strong> <strong>feedback<\/strong> when you want to help someone improve, learn, or change.\u00a0<strong> Evaluation feedback<\/strong> is a ranking, rating, or judgement of a person\u2019s performance.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Strategies to incorporate <strong>peer review<\/strong> into your revision process include asking your peer reviewer to summarize your essay in just a few sentences, to consider what someone from the opposing view would think, or to fill in an outline using your essay.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">One way to make sure that peer review works for all parties is to use the SPARK strategy. Peer review feedback should be <strong>Specific<\/strong>, <strong>Prescriptive<\/strong>, <strong>Actionable<\/strong>, <strong>Referenced<\/strong>, and <strong>Kind<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Strategies for <strong>proofreading<\/strong> a paper include <strong>taking a<\/strong> <strong>break<\/strong>, <strong>reading it aloud<\/strong> to catch errors, or <strong>reverse reading<\/strong> sentence-by-sentence.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">In 2008, Andrea Lunsford and Karen Lunsford conducted a study of a large representative sample of English Composition essays from all over the country and used it to assemble a list of the twenty<strong> most common errors<\/strong> made by Composition students.\u00a0 Knowing these along with common punctuation errors can help you look for those in your proofreading and editing.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Resources to help with proofreading<\/strong> include spell check, grammar check, text-to-speech, friends, peers, and the Writing Center.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Coherence<\/strong> in writing refers to the big picture of a text. Some strategies to revise your argument for coherence include <strong>reverse outlining<\/strong> and <strong>question outlining<\/strong> to check the logic and flow of your draft to ensure readers can see the big picture you are trying to create.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">One way to achieve <strong>paragraph coherence<\/strong> is to follow the ADVICE format:\u00a0 <strong>Announce<\/strong> the paragraph\u2019s main idea in the first sentence, <strong>Develop<\/strong> the core idea, <strong>Validate<\/strong> your claim, <strong>Interpret<\/strong> that evidence, <strong>Conclude<\/strong>, and <strong>Extend<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Clear writing<\/strong> is effortless reading that makes you want to read more. It is clear and concise, uses short sentences and simple words. It keeps to the facts and is easy to read and to understand.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Readers expect sentences to deliver information using a certain predictable structure. In order to make your sentences clear and easy to understand, <strong>align<\/strong> the main character and action with the main subject and verb.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Appreciation<\/strong> <strong>feedback<\/strong> typically lets the writer know that they\u2019re doing a good job and are, as the name implies, appreciated. You use <strong>coaching<\/strong> <strong>feedback<\/strong> when you want to help someone improve, learn, or change.\u00a0<strong> Evaluation feedback<\/strong> is a ranking, rating, or judgement of a person\u2019s performance.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Strategies to incorporate <strong>peer review<\/strong> into your revision process include asking your peer reviewer to summarize your essay in just a few sentences, to consider what someone from the opposing view would think, or to fill in an outline using your essay.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">One way to make sure that peer review works for all parties is to use the SPARK strategy. Peer review feedback should be <strong>Specific<\/strong>, <strong>Prescriptive<\/strong>, <strong>Actionable<\/strong>, <strong>Referenced<\/strong>, and <strong>Kind<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Strategies for <strong>proofreading<\/strong> a paper include <strong>taking a<\/strong> <strong>break<\/strong>, <strong>reading it aloud<\/strong> to catch errors, or <strong>reverse reading<\/strong> sentence-by-sentence.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">In 2008, Andrea Lunsford and Karen Lunsford conducted a study of a large representative sample of English Composition essays from all over the country and used it to assemble a list of the twenty<strong> most common errors<\/strong> made by Composition students.\u00a0 Knowing these along with common punctuation errors can help you look for those in your proofreading and editing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Resources to help with proofreading<\/strong> include spell check, grammar check, text-to-speech, friends, peers, and the Writing Center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-602\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Lumen Learning authored content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Putting It Together: Revising a Research Paper. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":161083,"menu_order":17,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"lumen\",\"description\":\"Putting It Together: Revising a Research Paper\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"6dd27fa7-9bba-4eaa-b259-609ac38f3eca","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-602","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/602\/revisions\/3098"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/85"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/602\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}