Revision? What is that? I turned my essay into the online
tutor on Thursday but alas I haven’t got it back yet. Looks like I will have to stare this bad boy
down and hope I didn’t screw up any of the simple little things. I feel pretty
good about the essay as it stands. When I turn things in for revision I mostly
just want to make sure I haven’t screwed up the MLA formatting or citations.
The best part of revision is I don’t need to check the
source materiel anymore. I didn’t have to sift through the pretentious writing
of DeLillo because I am busy sifting through the pretentious writing of Cason.
I like to go with my original thoughts and opinions while writing. I can go
back and check after I am finished and wonder how exactly I thought of
something that either didn’t exist or was such a small and nearly unnoticeable part
that left a big impact on my thoughts while trying to make sense of a specific
theme in a book or essay.
Reading over my essay multiple times causes me to pull
paragraphs out and shuffle them around like a carnival shell game. This causes
my connecting sentences to not work so I usually have to change those around or
create an entirely new one. One thing that I do that I believe helps quite a
bit is I skip the outline entirely and when I think I have finished the essay I
go back and create an outline while looking at the current lay of the essay. If
anything doesn’t fit or is out of place it practically glows on my reverse
outline.
Wow! I've never thought to use a reverse outline! It sounds like a great idea. There was about a ten hour period in which I was cursing and swearing about because the online tutor was not responding, so, I know how you feel on that issue. Thanks again for the new idea and tool that I surely will use!
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