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Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts

Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts. Read, Listen, Implement. Checking Your Draft Yourself Reviewing Your Draft Managing Your Revising Time. Three Activities of Revising. Checking Your Draft Yourself. From your reader’s point of view. Checking Your Draft Yourself. From your

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Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts

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  1. Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts

  2. Read, Listen, Implement • Checking Your Draft Yourself • Reviewing Your Draft • Managing Your Revising Time

  3. Three Activities of Revising

  4. Checking Your Draft Yourself • From your reader’s point of view

  5. Checking Your Draft Yourself • From your employer’s point of view

  6. Checking Your Draft Yourself • Distance yourself from your draft

  7. Checking Your Draft Yourself • Check it twice and change your focus

  8. Checking Your Draft Yourself • Computer aids: part of the solution- not the cure Spelling and Grammar Check

  9. Checking Your Draft Yourself • Be ethical: think about your stakeholders’ perspective

  10. Reviewing Drafts • Discuss objectives

  11. Reviewing Drafts • Positive relationships make happy writers and reviewers

  12. Reviewing Drafts • Do you have taste?

  13. Reviewing Drafts • Be an explorer

  14. Reviewing Drafts • Be helpful

  15. Reviewing Drafts • Be ethical: Review from your stakeholders’ perspective

  16. Managing Your Revising Time • Invest wisely- buy high, sell low, adjust to the situation

  17. Managing Your Revising Time • Significant revisions come first

  18. Managing Your Revising Time • Be diplomatic

  19. Managing Your Revising Time • Revise to learn

  20. Let’s Review the Three

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