Students may learn from serving in roles of both author and editor. "Peer revising is a common feature of writing-process classrooms, and it is often recommended as a way of providing student writers with an audience of readers who can respond to their writing, identify strengths and and problems, and recommend improvements. Revision is democracy's literary method, the tool that allows an ordinary person to aspire to extraordinary achievement." Revision is the hope you hold out for yourself to make something beautiful tomorrow though you didn't quite manage it today. Revision is the way you cope with bad luck that made your writing less than excellent this morning.
"I like to think of revision as a form of self-forgiveness: you can allow yourself mistakes and shortcomings in your writing because you know you're coming back later to improve it. (Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd, Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction. If Fitzgerald had been advising a young writer and not himself he might have said, 'Rewrite from principle,' or 'Don't just push the same old stuff around. The first is trying to fix what you've already written, but doing this can keep you from facing up to the second kind, from figuring out the essential thing you're trying to do and looking for better ways to tell your story.
"here are at least two kinds of rewriting. I just keep reading the story, first on the tube, then in paper form, usually standing up at a file cabinet far from my desk, tinkering and tinkering, shifting paragraphs around, throwing out words, shortening sentences, worrying and fretting, checking spelling and job titles and numbers." " Revision is a grand term for the frantic process of fixing the mess. "Writing is revising, and the writer's craft is largely a matter of knowing how to discover what you have to say, develop, and clarify it, each requiring the craft of revision.".(Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life. In other words, there's no sense in revising a sentence to a hard shining beauty if the passage including that sentence will have to be cut." " evision begins with the large view and proceeds from the outside in, from overall structure to paragraphs and finally sentences and words, toward ever more intricate levels of detail."Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost.".
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