Revision is the act of re-examining and making alterations to any type of writing. Revision comes into place after the author’s initial draft. Writers can add, move, remove, and substitute parts of their text. Revision gives writers an opportunity to make the reading experience better for their audience. Revision can also come from external sources such as collaborators and constructive feedback.
In the text, “Revision is Central to Developing Writing” The author, Doug Down explains the simple idea of revision. Revision is one of the most important parts of creating the best possible writing. Down expresses the idea that writing is not static, you must build time for feedback
and change in your writing. The effect of just looking back and making changes has on writing. When we write our first drafts, we tend to make many mistakes that we aren’t capable of realizing, and fixing until we are able to take a break, think, proofread and find small slip-ups in our writing.
“Writers who don’t revise are likely to see fewer positive results from their writing than those who build time for feedback and revision into their writing workflows”. (Down .66)
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The text, “Revision is Central to Developing Writing” has a few similarities and a few dissimilarities to another article called, “Shitty First Drafts.” This article by Anne Lamott expresses the need to drop fears, and basic contemplations on your own writing. and demands that writers should write down whatever strikes a chord for their first drafts, paying little attention to their opinion about it or how it may be seen by the reader. Just like Doug Down’s piece, “Shitty First Drafts” also strives to help writers make a great paper and also become better writers. But Lamott’s piece has a comedic tone to it unlike, “Revision is Central to Developing Writing” which seems to be strictly informal. Both of these articles can be put in order and can work after each other. Both of these texts are very helpful for any writer.
Both of these articles taught me that writing is a full-on process. You can’t just take one day to write an essay and submit it the next. First, you need to draft and get all of your ideas out on paper, then it is essential to re-read and revise to fix any grammatical mistakes, rearrange any confusing parts, take out unnecessary detail and add clarity. Both of these articles strive to help out any struggling writer that needs to look at writing as fluid, not static.
