According to the article that Nancy Sommers wrote, there are two types of strategies: Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Revision Strategies for Experienced Writers. If you ask me both of these types of strategies are helpful in one way or another in many different ways.
The revision process for student writers is mainly based on a rewording activity. This strategy is always helpful because it prevents repetition of words or phrases. According to N. Sommers, repetition is one of the concepts that most student writers worry about. Repetition is very common, and it occurs when the writing imitates itself. Reviewing is also commonly used in the student revision strategies. This is always helpful because you can see what does not sound right, what is worded right, or what does not belong. This can also help you see if you have repeated anything twice. The strategies that are used by student writers are mostly teacher based strategies, and the students are comfortable with having met the requirements.
Revision Strategies of experienced writers require a little more effort in my opinion, but are also very helpful. “The experienced writers describe their primary objective when revising as finding the form or shape of their argument.”(N. Sommers 384) These strategies involve a lot of revising and rewriting. The experienced writers feel the need to rely on their own sense of good writing and to see their writing with their own eyes.
As you can see all these strategies are helpful in different ways we just have to learn to apply them to our writing and be ok with mistakes.
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