Is Revising really that important?
Coming to college revising is a huge lesson because your paper or what you read is never going to be perfect. In high school I believe teachers play a big role of why we don't revise "well" because they do teach us words like "scratch out and do over again" when in college and for what they call "experience writers" those are baby words. So, is revising really that important.... I say yes for the fact that like I said before not everybody's paper is perfect, but you also have to know the real definition to revising. To revise, is to finding the arguement like it says so on the article. Revising is the process of discovering meaning altogether and this where you see the importance of dissonance; at the heart of revision is the process by which writers recognize and resolve the dissonance they sense in their writing. When revising you get closer to the meaning by not limiting yourselves (writers) too early to lexical concerns.
I agree that when students are revising each others papers, they must try to focus more on ideas than words because then they don't even understand what they are reading but somehow want to change the words being used.You can change the words if you don't understand what your peer is trying to say.
ReplyDeleteI agree because ive found that my paper can be so much better if i just take the time to revise
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