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What is the difference between Students and Experienced Adult Writers Strategies?

Sommers in her article “Revision strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” states the strategies of each of those writers. I think that we should know the difference between these two types of writers and then take the best of each one. Maybe the difference is the time writers have been writing, the experienced adult writers have had practice a lot more than students and maybe students have just learn how to write correctly. Maybe experienced writers have more ideas in their mind or maybe students have new and fresh ideas.
Sommers says in her article that students do not use the terms revision or rewriting, they are terms used by the teachers. Although this are common terms that experienced writers use. She gave examples and can be seen as differences between these two writers: what students do according to Sommers are “scratch out and do over again”, “reviewing”, “redoing”, “marking out” and “slashing and throwing out”. As Sommers says “students understand the revision process as a rewording activity”, this means that students do not like to revise their writings because for them is just like paraphrasing their own work and “they concentrate on particular words apart from their role in the text”.
While experienced writers use “rewriting” and “revising”. After asking some experienced writers, they “describe their primary objective when revising as finding the form or shape of their argument”. As their second objective, they concern about who is going to read their paper and make it more accordantly to the type of person that is going to read it.
So, the difference between this two writers is that experienced writers revise more their paper than students, giving them de advantage to improve their work.