Revision Basics
This term means "re-seeing" your ideas and improving what you want to say.
What is revision
Fixing spelling and punctuation errors happens at this level.
What is Level 3: Skin
At Level 1, you should ask yourself if you still do this with what you wrote.
What is agree
At Level 2, you should replace general words with these.
What are specific examples
Level 3 focuses on fixing these three types of errors.
What are grammar, spelling, and punctuation
You should give yourself this between drafts to see your writing with fresh eyes.
What is time
Professional writers spend most of their time doing this, not editing.
What is revising
Changing your main ideas and what your writing says happens at this level.
What is Level 1: Bones
This Level 1 strategy involves explaining your main idea out loud to a classmate.
What is sharing your draft
What is change to something more specific
This is another name for Level 3 work.
What is editing
At Level 2, you ask yourself if this person will understand what you mean.
Who is your reader
This is what your first draft should be considered, not your final product.
What is a starting point
Making your writing clearer and organizing paragraphs happens at this level.
What is Level 2: Muscles
After taking a break, you should come back and do this about your topic.
What is freewrite or rambling thought
You should add these three things where ideas are unclear.
What are examples, definitions, or evidence
You should read your paper this way to catch errors at Level 3.
What is backwards, sentence by sentence
At Level 2, you should do this with paragraphs so ideas flow in a logical order.
What is rearrange them
Revision helps you discover this about your writing.
What is what you really want to say
This is the level most students jump to first, but shouldn't.
What is Level 3: Skin
You should find this type of sentence and ask why it matters
What is your most interesting sentence
At Level 2, you should do this with sentences that confuse or distract from your point.
What is delete them
This is when Level 3 editing should happen in the revision process
What is last (or after revising bones and muscles)
This is what Level 2 focuses on: how clearly and effectively you do this.
What is communicate your ideas
This is the step where good writing becomes great writing.
What is revision
You should always revise in this order.
What is Bones first, then Muscles, then Skin
At Level 1, you need to be willing to do this with parts that don't work anymore.
What is throw them out (or delete them)
You should check that each paragraph connects to this.
What is your main argument
This is why you shouldn't fix grammar at the beginning of revision.
What is you might delete that paragraph
At Level 2, you should look for this type of language that needs specific examples.
What is vague or abstract language