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Some helpful tips on revision (click here!)
Some inspirational quotes before we get started:
"The first draft is the down draft- you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft- you fix it up. The their draft is the dental draft, when you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or even, healthy!"
-Ann Lamott-
"Few of us express ourselves well in a first draft. When we revise that early confusion into something clearer, we understand our ideas better. And when we understand our ideas better, we express them more clearly, and when we express them more clearly, we understand them better… and so it goes until we run out of energy, interest, or time. "
-Joseph M. Williams
"The purpose of revision is not to correct but to discover"
-Lucy McCormick Calkins
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Revision is what I like to think of as the backbone skill to writing. If one can't look at a piece of their own writing critically and be willing to change it, then they aren't being true to themselves as writers. I will always tell my students, the more you write, the easier it is to "cut the fat" and begin the revision process. Revision is when a writer makes conscious decisions about his or her writing. Yes, sometimes it takes time, and quite a lot of thought, but the more a writer practices thinking about their writing and what they put on paper; how intentional it can be, then one becomes a real-live-writer!
When the six-traits are mentioned having to do with revision a writer will look at ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency within the piece of writing and make a conscious decision as to what needs to be changed, re-arranged, or taken out completely. Think, "How can I say this differently?" Or "If I change this word to another, what will it do to the meaning of my writing?"
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