Raymundo Rivera
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Phan Thi Thuy Trang
September 10, 2010
REVISION STRATEGIES OF STUDENT WRITERS AND EXPERIENCED ADULT WRITERS
Nancy Sommers “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” College Composition and Communication, Vol. 31, No. 4, (Dec.,1980),pp. 378-388
Summary:
Nancy Sommers does a great job in this article on showing us how experienced writers use the method of revising for making a remarkable writing. Revision is a tool used by the writers to improve their paper after doing it for first time, they go back and revise their paper to check for all the main points and the miss place sentences or organization. It also says that we don’t have a pattern for writing, we write the way we want everything is going to be different each time. We don’t write the same way we talk, we have to write in a formal manner and most of us when we talk use slang words that we would never use in a formal composition. We cannot go back in a speech but we can go back on a writing to revise it. On the article it says that The spoken word cannot be revised. The article also gives several revision strategies, one is example is rewriting it helps the writer to correct his mistakes on the first paper. Usually the experience writers are the ones who use this method of revision by rewriting their composition. Most of the students fail to do this, to go back and rewrite the paper or start a new one, they mainly use the scratching out some sentences and that’s it.
Question:
What are some of the revision strategies experience writers use?
Response:
Nancy gives us great examples in her article, most of the experience writers take the time to rewrite their writing to have a better view of their work an rearrange his or her toughs and ideas. This helps them to work better on their organization of the paragraphs and sentences. It also helps them on their grammar mistakes and some other errors they made on the composition. Another strategy is the scratch out method this involves going over the paper and changing words that fit better on the topic and in the sentence. Another common strategy is the Marking out which is very similar to the scratching out method is just marking some words and putting in some new ones. Personally I don’t like rewriting my paper it takes me a long time so I use the scratching out method of substituting words and phrases in the writings.
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Raymundo Rivera
9-8-10
ENG 1301/161
Thrang Phan
Gloria A. Neubert and Sally J. McNelis “Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions”
The English Journal. Vol. 79. No. 5 (Sep., 1990). Pp. 52-56
Summary:
PEER RESPONSE: TEACHING SPECIFIC REVISION SUGGESTIONS
This article talks about something similar we have to do for this class on the blogger. We have to post comments on our peers in their summaries and blogs. This article also talks about the PQP which was introduce firstly to middle-school teachers and later on to college students. It helped the students to give better comment on their peers papers and improve their writing skill. The article gives us some clear examples of the improvement on the revision of papers with this method. Its separate in total class activity, individual work, Follow-up; in total class activity it tells us that specific responses are the useful because it gives the writer a specific direction for revision and tell the writer why the revision is necessary. The article also tells us about the individual work, its time where we use the ideas collected from our peers and make it better on our writings. The follow-up the article talks about is just telling us that they did the same process three weeks later.
Question:
Do small group activities work for me?
Response:
Personally I like working in groups we can express our ideas with our teammates and we can share our toughs. When we are revising our papers in small groups it helps me see my mistakes and it helps me improve my composition. I like giving ideas to my peers so I can give them some feedback on their work. In small groups we get to meet new people and we also get to know the way they write and the way they think about writing.
9-8-10
ENG 1301/161
Thrang Phan
Gloria A. Neubert and Sally J. McNelis “Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions”
The English Journal. Vol. 79. No. 5 (Sep., 1990). Pp. 52-56
Summary:
PEER RESPONSE: TEACHING SPECIFIC REVISION SUGGESTIONS
This article talks about something similar we have to do for this class on the blogger. We have to post comments on our peers in their summaries and blogs. This article also talks about the PQP which was introduce firstly to middle-school teachers and later on to college students. It helped the students to give better comment on their peers papers and improve their writing skill. The article gives us some clear examples of the improvement on the revision of papers with this method. Its separate in total class activity, individual work, Follow-up; in total class activity it tells us that specific responses are the useful because it gives the writer a specific direction for revision and tell the writer why the revision is necessary. The article also tells us about the individual work, its time where we use the ideas collected from our peers and make it better on our writings. The follow-up the article talks about is just telling us that they did the same process three weeks later.
Question:
Do small group activities work for me?
Response:
Personally I like working in groups we can express our ideas with our teammates and we can share our toughs. When we are revising our papers in small groups it helps me see my mistakes and it helps me improve my composition. I like giving ideas to my peers so I can give them some feedback on their work. In small groups we get to meet new people and we also get to know the way they write and the way they think about writing.
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