The Maker's Eye Revising Your Own Manuscript Summary

In “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript,” Donald M. Murray makes it clear that any individual who writes their first draft is only just beginning the true process of writing. As Murray states, writing is a never ending process that constantly needs new revisions. His main goal of this passage is to allow writers to understand some of the strategies and approaches that come with revising a draft. Murray does provide many supporting evidence to convince a reader of his strategies to be very useful and I agree with this author on improving writers’ writings.

To begin with, Murray has a way of saying exactly what he wants to say by saying it in the correct vocabulary in which his audience falls under. For example, Murray is intentionally trying to convey readers who fall within the ranges of being an “amateur” writer. For the reason that his intentional audience is “amateur,” Murray knows not to use high vocabulary but rather base it on everyday language. It is this reason why many of his readers will take note of what he says to do since what he wants is

Murray has all these steps done in the manner of the author’s perspective only. Firstly the author has to gather “specific, accurate, and interesting information.” Secondly the author has to find the meaning to his information followed by being aware of his or her audience. After, the author looks for form, structure, and development to create a certain pattern. Lastly, voice is what a writer listens to for a smooth writing. Many writings are set up in a certain way especially writings such as poems. Poems have a structure to how the poem looks as a whole and rhythm it follows. This is also a reason as to why I can agree with Murray about these being steps writers follow to make sure their writing is shown in a specific