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Explore pedagogical strategies for effective writing revision, including multiple drafts, portfolios, peer evaluation, and drafting workshops. Discover techniques like humor, wikis, hot spotting, and reading, recording, listening to enhance the revision process.
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COMPOSITION REVISION: Written in Stone or Cultivating a Critical Eye
Pedagogical Strategies • Multiple Drafts • Computer Classrooms • Portfolios • Peer Evaluation • Drafting Workshops • Personal Conferences • And so forth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other Techniques • Humor • Wikis • Hot Spotting • Reading, Recording, Listening • Film • Music
Revision means to “see again” These techniques provide students with vivid reminders that effective writing requires rewriting.
“Shitty First Drafts” • Anne Lamott’s Essay from Bird by Bird (1994) • Importance of Drafting • Lab Assignment • Literacy Narrative • http://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%20Drafts.pdf
STUDENT “BLOOPERS” • Richard Lederer Anguished English (1989) • Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock • Moses went up on Mount Cyanide • Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday • David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar.
My Student “Bloopers” • Michelangelo painted the chapel on his back • An admiral reputation would attract more students • Obsoltete equipment can obscure evidence of any hazardous growth (mammogram research) • The Greeks could be classified as one of the world’s first raciest civilizations • I have received jesters of affection • He had a legion on his forehead
“Bloopers” • Fulfillment and goals constipate the ultimate longing on the path ahead • It was a defecate possibility • When the Constitution was written, our four fathers gave us the unrestricted right to keep and bare arms • Complexitisies
“Bloopers” • Peer torturing consultations with the professor • It is misfortunate to say that many Americans are illiterate • It was udder craziness!