My approach to revising has changed throughout the semester and I believe it is visible in my work. Before this semester my revision process was mainly focused on fixing sentence clarity and grammatical issues. But now, my revision process contains deeper thinking and restructuring of the whole paper to make my essay the best that it can be. The essay that exemplifies my development the most if Project 3. During this project, I tried to take what I have learned throughout the semester and apply it to my revising process. I relied on my peers’ comments to help me focus on areas of weakness as well as where I might add in a quote or two to help provide further evidence for my claims. Between Draft 1 and Draft 2, I did not do too much revising but rather I added length and analysis to my writing. Most of my revision happened between Draft 2 and the final copy because I wanted feedback from peers before I delved deep into revising. Some major changes that I made to this essay was that I added another source to support a claim and I added additional quotes to demonstrate my knowledge of Barclay’s Formula. A major global change I made between my drafts and my final essay is that I reworked my thesis to make my essay have more flow and connect to my main ideas. Another major global change I made was that I added more of my own thoughts throughout this essay. This has always been a point of weakness and was commented on by both my peers and by the professor once previous essays have been graded. Some major local changes I made was fixing sentence clarity, editing my grammar, adding a mix of quotes and paraphrasing, and adding in-text citations. This shows that I have developed as a reviser because I am now able to use what I learned in class and what my peers say about my writing and apply it to my revision process. By using feedback from the professor, I was able to add more depth to my writing and insert my own opinions, not just state what other people think, which is using the practice of “they say, I say” that was taught throughout the entirety of the semester.
