david munoz sqr#3

David Munoz

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Trang Phan

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Nancy Sommers. “revision strategies of students writers and experienced adult writers. National Council of Teachers of English,Vol.31,No.4(dec., 1980)pp. 378-388

SQR#3

the research on revision was not been studied until a group of researchers in need of answer did a research with student writers and experimented writers to see how each of them label the way they make their revisions.

The student writers did not seem to like the revision, for them there was no need of revision to them writing was like a speech linear, the only way the majority of them revise is grammar and in some cases they focused on the way they organize and write their ideas.

In these research was written a scale of concern in which  they used the same scale of concerns when revising the second or third drafts as they used in revising the first draft.

In the other hand the experimented writers where more focused in the ideas, not in the grammar but in the way they were putting words together so their works will make sense.

To an experienced writer the first draft is the only draft full of ideas the other drafts were just organizing the ideas made in the first draft, to them grammar was just the last point to correct in their papers. Student writers need to use the possibility of revision in order to become experienced.

Question

According to Britton, ‘’ revision is simply the further growth of what is already there, the “preconceived” product (379). How, in your opinion, does this theory undermine the role of revision in writing?

Revision is not only what is already there, revision is adding words ideas changing thoughts, revision can change whole meanings, this theory undermine the role of revision in writing because is not only what is already there in fact is the act of adding more content to the writing.