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COM 121-3341 Week 4 Revising your ideas about revising

COM 121-3341 Week 4 Revising your ideas about revising. It is a writer’s prerogative to change his or her mind. Narrowing Your Topic. From a broad category: “The economy” • To a question: “Why are individuals today in so much debt?”. Defining Your Thesis. From a question:

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COM 121-3341 Week 4 Revising your ideas about revising

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  1. COM 121-3341Week 4Revising your ideas about revising

  2. It is a writer’s prerogative to change his or her mind.

  3. Narrowing Your Topic • From a broad category: “The economy” • To a question: “Why are individuals today in so much debt?”

  4. Defining Your Thesis • From a question: “Why are individuals today in so much debt?” • To a thesis: “People at every level of society are living in debt because they are outspending their earnings.”

  5. Paradoxically (adj.): 1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. 2. a self-contradictory and false proposition. 3. any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion Everlastingly (adj.): eternally; lasting forever or for an indefinitely long time Procrastinator: (n.): one who defers action; delays; puts off til tomorrow “Had energy” (v.): conveyed energy, had momentum, was vivid “Rang true”(v.) (idiom) : had an air of truth, seemed true, felt true. Slavish (adj.): 1. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life. 2. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original. Fallacies (n. plural): 1. A false notion. 2. A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference. 3. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness. 4. The quality of being deceptive. Haphazardly (adv.): done with a lack of plan, order, or direction; randomly Buttressed (trans. verb): 1. Held up by a projecting structure for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building 3: Supported or strengthened by.

  6. “The beautiful part of being a writer is that you don’t have to get it right the first time,unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”- Robert Cormier

  7. How do you cook?

  8. Understanding revision:Revising =rereading, re-seeing, and re-thinking your thoughts. A conceptual process focused on larger units of meaning.

  9. Understanding revision:Editing =changing language,rather thanchanging ideas.

  10. Understanding revision:Proofreading =checking a manuscriptfor correctness.

  11. Understanding revision:Revise first.Then edit.Then proofread.

  12. The big picture:what is it you are trying to say?

  13. Without looking at your paper, answer these questions:Why am I writing this paper?To explain _______….To describe_________…What does my audience already knowabout this subject?What questions or objections do I anticipate my audience raising?Does the paper sound like I wrote it?What parts don’t sound like my voice?

  14. Techniques for focused revising:LimitingLimit time, place and action.

  15. Techniques for focused revising:LimitingLimit scope to the topic of one paragraph or page of your first draft.

  16. Techniques for focused revising:AddingAdd expert voices.- research- interview

  17. Techniques for focused revising:AddingAdd details.- sensory details- other specific information- who, when, what, why, where, how

  18. Techniques for focused revising:SwitchingSwitch point-of-view.If not you, who?First vs. second vs. third person.

  19. Techniques for focused revising:SwitchingSwitch tense.Past, present or future.Looking back on events from distance?

  20. Techniques for focused revising:SwitchingSwitch sides.(in argumentative essay especially - to anticipate opposing arguments)

  21. Techniques for focused revising:TransformingSwitch literary genres.Journal. Letter. News release. Presentation. Filmscript. Poem?When and why would this be appropriate? When not?

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