Description

This episode will discuss strategies for revision, the aspect of writing process that focuses on making major changes to a draft.

Episode transcript

Note:  While editing this episode, I realized that I misspoke a researcher's name.  I said Alex Horning when I meant Alice Horning.  I apologize for the error.

Additional Materials:  

• Handouts on the revision activities discussed in the episode:
  • Hot-spotting
  • Reverse Outlining (from the Duke University Writing Center)
  • Cutting Up a Draft
• "Revising Drafts" from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center
• Revision:  History, Theory, and Practice, edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker (Note:  This link leads to an e-book that focuses on research into revision.)
• "Poster Page: Revision"  from the journal College Composition and Communication.
• MIT Global Studies' "Revise" and "Instructions for Revising" from The Writing Process
• L. Lennie Irvin's "Changing Your Mindset about Revision" (article in Volume 5 of Writing Spaces)

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