In the article “Revision Is Central to Developing Writing” by Doug Downs the importance of revising your writing multiple times is stressed. Going back and rereading your work can cause you to expand the writing’s ideas to make the writing better than the draft. Revisions are not a bad thing, it does not mean you failed, they are needed to achieve a better paper. Revising allows you to add new ideas or take away ones that were thrown in last minute with little thought. Leaving your first draft as a final can make you feel less rewarded.
The articles “Revision Is Central to Developing Writing” by Doug Downs, “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott are similar in a few ways. One way being rough drafts and revisions are key to creating a good final writing. These are both often looked down on when they do not need to be. They are different because they are done at different times; first draft first then revise. I learned that revision is not just correcting the errors I make but also trying to better understand and expand the ideas of my writing.
