Tuesday, September 14, 2010

SQR #3 Miguel Garcia

Student’s name: Miguel A. Garcia
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Instructor’s name: Trang Phan
Date
:sep-10-2010

Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adults Writers

This article explains some writing aspects that have being absent in the revision process. The reason for missing steps in the revision process is that some models have being applied. Those models draw attention of the writers, and get them to be away from revision. Models separate the writing process into steps to attempt to make the writing process easier. Prewriting-Writing-Rewriting are those steps that are not further than the formation, structuring and improvement of the paper.
This linear model is impossible to apply in a speech. In writing, writers can easily check their work, but in a speech the speaker does not have time after thought, this make revision impossible to apply in a speech. The writer of the article emphasize a little bit in the Rohman´s model which states that rewriting is the repetition of writing, a development of whatever is already wrote. What linear model states is that writing begins where speech become impossible.
What should be considered at the beginning are the differences between writers. Students who write a paper for an assignment usually do not take care about the process of writing. Students think that revision process is not more than a waste of time. They major concern is vocabulary. When they review the paper, they want to make sure that everything is worded correctly. Lexical changes are the biggest change that students make to their papers. When they rewrite the paper, they simply cross out words that should not be there and clean it up. They pay a special importance to avoid being redundant, rewording seems to fix their paper, yet they do not care about being redundant on a textual level. Students see at their work as a work made by inspiration. Then they have no reason for revision.
In the other hand, experimented writers define rewriting as the process of finding their argument, languages changes, the seeking of the most effective argument. In the article a writer explains that his first draft is to figure out what he is trying to say. Revising process for experimented writers, they do not fall in love with whatever they have written, this makes it easier when they check the paper and change the content. And is not only once, they write 3 or 4 drafts to shape their arguments, improve the content and make it easier for the reader to read, all of those objects are done in every draft.
Revision strategies may be clearer for some writers than to others. Those strategies help them to either structuring vocabulary or shape the arguments, all depend in the ability of the writer.

How useful can revision strategies be for the writer???

As I already set, revision strategies can be pretty useful for a writer or just a waste of time. Experimented writers fallow some steps to make sure that their ideas are clear enough for the reader. They can rewrite the paper to shape the argument and have strong statements. And some others see the revision strategies as a protocol to fallow. Avoid having grammar mistakes and rewording sentences to avoid redundancies. Those are teacher bases for writing. All depends in the writer understanding of those strategies. 

3 comments:

  1. i feel that you wrote to much and and you sound like you were writng whatever.

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  2. I like that you are including the liner model but the question could use work and job not making the article about how you see the many points and just take the most impotent stuff.

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  3. good content, but need to explain the answer a little more deeper, and use examples from the text.

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