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The Writing Process, Step 4: Reviewing your work. Why review?. No one gets it perfectly right on the first attempt. Even professional writers need to look over their work. Reviewing lets you catch mistakes in the mechanics and in the content (the ideas). . The Multiple Sides of Reviewing.
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Why review? • No one gets it perfectly right on the first attempt. • Even professional writers need to look over their work. • Reviewing lets you catch mistakes in the mechanics and in the content (the ideas).
The Multiple Sides of Reviewing • There are two different ways to review a piece of writing: • EDITING focuses on the MECHANICS of your writing • REVISING is looking at the FLOW of your IDEAS
Do it right! • You should NOT try to do your editing and revising at the same time! • The human brain can only focus well on ONE action at a time. • You will find more errors and create a better final piece if you do your editing SEPARATELY from your revising .
How to review: • Try reviewing your work yourself. • After you have caught whatever mistakes you can, get AT LEAST two other people to review your work, as well.