SQR #3

G. Berenise De La Rosa

ENG 1320/1301. 161

Trang Phan

September 10, 2010

SQR #3

Citation: Nancy Sommers. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers”. College Composition and Communication, Vol. 31, No. 4, (Dec., 1980), pp. 378-388.

What i mainly understood about this summary is that many people think that revising their paper after they are done is not important anymore. This is talking about how a lot of people use revising as a useful step to have the best written paper they can have. A lot of times they do not realize that they have spelling mistakes, grammar, punctuation but they think that it does not matter and it is ok for them to do that. There is many revision strategies that are good to follow so it can help anyone who is writing. If you do not follow these strategies it is more than likely that you do not really do well on you story or page. Many unexperienced students or people may think it is a waste of time, that what is the point of revising if everything is perfectly done. Unlike the experienced writers, they use the revision strategies to see how he/she writes. Experienced writers describe their primary objective when revising, like it says on page 384. They follow the steps, step by step and have second objectives, they also imagine a reader (like someone else reading their product). This is not only about the process of communication but the process of discovering meaning altogether. It is just practically explaining the difference between what an unexperienced writer thinks about revision, on how experienced writers take it more serious.

1. QUESTION 5: Choose one of the quotes and explain what Sommers means by it.

b. “If the students feel inspired, if the writing comes easily, and if they don’t get stuck on individual words or phrases, then they say that they cannot see any reason to revise” (382).

R. What i think Sommers means about this quote is that many students are unexperienced writers who do not have the same thinking as the experienced writers. Unexperienced writers think that when they write a story, a summary, or things like that, they assume that their job is perfect and done. In reality many do not even realize that they have to always go back and revise what they did. A lot of unexperienced writers do not know the rules and maybe do not know that even experienced writers have to go back and revise their work. On page 378, it says, “I suspect, is that current models of the writing process have directed attention away from revision.” Which means that more and more people think that revision is just a waste of time and their is no need for it.