By Keegan Bonzheim
In the article “Revision Is Central to Developing Writing,” Doug Downs talks about how revising your work can be beneficial to developing further your essay. Letting readers revise your work can let your article be seen from a different angle, which goes by saying that “text is an object outside of one’s self that can be improved and developed (Downs).” In other words what he is saying is that revisions operate by incorporating time and space into the method of text creation for further review by the author of a written issue, letting readers give additional views.
Being able to do this practice will enable students to understand a healthy experience of failure. Lots of people strive to never fail, but in this case, learning to fail is one way to stay away from It in your writings. Finding constant problems like false/un-needed evidence can help see problems that you have with writing essays.
How the article “Revision Is Central to Developing Writing,” can be easily relatable to Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts.” is that they both deal with constant reviewing of one’s work. Revising not only with yourself but with your peers can help progress your work and make your essay viewed from different perspectives and views. Combing both these articles I’ve learned that never to worry about your rough draft. Revising and re-writing your essay should be continuous with you making ethical choices in your writing, further improving your work until it’s ready to submit. When thinking of ethical decisions, revisions can be key because writing is used as another way to communicate, the decisions you make and the things you say are going to more than likely direct the audience for you. When writers are ready to start writing they should be asking these questions to themselves, “What kind of writer do I wish to be? What are my obligations to my readers? What effects will my words have upon others in my community?
I think when writers revise their work, they’re more likely to follow accuracy, open-mindedness, and then Honesty. Using these three I believe that stating the facts early and then also being open-minded to your discussion, can leave your topic views well respected and call also leave your audience open-minded too. John Duffy explains that “the realities imply an attitude towards the writer readers: in this case attitudes of respectfulness, open-mindedness, goodwill perhaps humility” (32). Readers’ ethical choices should hold respectful, open-minded, and honest with the piece brought to them. Leaving the informational piece without an honest review is as bad as careless writing.
"Failure is an attitude not an outcome"
