In "The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript," the writer, Donald Murray, demonstrates that writers need to create a few drafts. In the improvement of creating drafts, each draft can be changed and reworked to be clearer. Authors need to welcome both negative input and compliments and be suspicious of both. Murray likewise focuses on the significance of reworking, which incorporates forms like filtering drafts and altering issues which sentences are not in respect to the theory with a specific end goal to make them legible (Murray, p.102). Also, writers must make sure to be more aware of the audience interests and be sure their audience understands the information which the writer is trying to precisely convey. As such, authors must comprehend
the desires of the audience and to answer to their inquiries (Murray, p.104). Different attributes of a decent bit of composing, as given by Murray is it has a conservative structure, including rationale, contention, story or inspiration, it gives enough information to create thoughts, it makes everything balanced among the parts of it, and it communicates content with a steady and individual voice (Murray, p.105). Ultimately, Murray says that writers need to alter by the correct implications of words. In "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision", written by Adrienne Rich, she writes about a story in which she incorporates her own sonnets and written works about woman's rights in literature. While societies view at the time for women was that they are not taken as seriously as men. Women are not seen as equals or professionals. Also, in the writing Rich alludes to how "the mans power" (p.108) had such a great amount of control over the women during those times. Presently there has been a major commotion and women development to indicate how we can break the customary past and make new guidelines. When Rice writes she doesn't prefer to distinguish herself as a male or female. Rice would like to stay anonymous and that is what she needed to do to get her point across.
Another revision technique that was suggested was “sentence outlining” which involves summarizing each paragraph of a writing into one overarching sentence in order to improve the cohesion of the piece (Harris 450). Introducing these techniques can allow readers to utilize revision in their own writing and form their own stance on its effectiveness. With revising the conclusion of a piece, Harris’ advise is to look ahead rather than to rephrase what has already been stated (Harris 454). Revision is expected to extend beyond the piece.
Colin G. Calloway’s The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America is a well researched, effective, and a creative story of North America during the year 1763. Calloway narrates his way through the year 1763 and talks about the effects on American History as a result of the Treaty of Paris 1763. The story illuminates the themes of racism, gender, and republicanism. Calloway has interesting techniques to approach important topics to show the topics significance. His book is very well researched and he cites a lot of different reliable sources to help make understanding the time period easier.
Writing requires a delicate balance between pleasing an audience, yet finding and sticking true to personal perspectives. More often than not, people find themselves ignoring their own thoughts and desires and just following along with the crowd, not standing up and arguing for anything, leaving behind a wishy-washy essay because they are too scared to stray from the obligations to others before the obligation to themselves. Anne Lamott’s “The Crummy First Draft” and Koji Frahm’s “How To Write an A Paper” both evaluate and stress the importance to find your own voice in writing and to be more critical towards readers. The reader’s perspective needs to play a role in writing, but it should not overrule the writer themselves. Writing needs to
Riis demonstrates and shows his audience that a writer can make simple changes to their text to change the impact of what he or she is talking about and continue to always have their readers’ attention.
In an excerpt from “The Process of Writing: Cooking” (Writing without Teachers, 1976), Peter Elbow shares his two-step freewriting method he learned to help him move past the fog of doubt caused by writer’s block. He sympathized with the reader and offered the advice to write indiscriminately, recognize the symptoms of encroaching panic, and redirect when necessary. Lastly, he explained how he could then assemble a mess of words into one idea while avoiding unnecessary frustrations. Then, typically, he would have reserved enough strength to edit constructively.
Experts believe that writing workshops are an excellent way to get elementary school children interested in writing and setting the stage for a lifelong joy of writing. Lucy Calkins developed Writer’s Workshop which was based on many positions taken by her mentor Donald Graves (Feinberg 2). She identified six major components of the Writer’s Workshop, which make it so successful. The six components are: predictable structure, free choice, useful mini-lessons, daily independent writing time, conferencing with teachers and peers and modeling good writing.
It would be foolish to claim that I have never overanalysed and disregarded conveying ideas and theories properly, in the interest of impressing my reader. Nevertheless, this aspiration indicates there is more to academic writing than simply passing information.
In this essay, “The Marker’s eyes”, the author, Donald Murray details how the writer needs to produce a progression of the draft. Murray also stresses the importance of revising your draft is when you really discover the deeper meaning of your writing. Murray explains how to a professional writer, the first draft and its following drafts are what helps them to get started with the writing task. The author also talks about developing a special type of reading skill, which will help the writer progress from draft to draft. He goes and says that writing is never finished in the writer's eye, it can always be modified and rearranged. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate to the readers how important revising is
...awareness of the impossibility opens consciousness to all that is possible for it to think. In this gathering place, where violence is rife, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion, he who reflects within cohesion realizes that there is no longer any room for him (Theory of Religion 10).
But if re-writing a source text is a necessary and beneficial thing then what system of judgment should be used to replace the fidelity criterion? Bortolotti and Hutcheon suggest embracing the scientific framework of post-Darwin biology to judge adaptations. Biologically changing or mutating is necessary for a the survival of a species: creatures who cannot adapt to new environments or circumstances will die out. As stated in the article both stories and organisms share the common need to, "replicate and change" (446). The question arises, then, on how much change can be made before a story is no longer an adaptation. When does it become its own story rather than the re-telling of a source text. Critics Hutcheon and Bortolotti claim that adaptations may change many things and still maintain their status as an adaptation as long the core narrative remains in tact.
“The Virtues of Growing,” by Carol Siskin is an essay that has two different versions. One being the rough draft that is also known as the original version and also the final draft. The progress of this essay displays a great revision of a paper. The original version versus the final version shows growth in the writers work, but also shows a lot of fault in the writer’s rough draft. Furthermore, the rough draft experienced a few expected struggles such as, the intro was too basic and it also provided too much opinion and personal experiences too early in the essay. The thesis was unclear and the opening questions was too broad because it didn’t lead to a stance or a position on the topic. These mistakes could impact the quality of an essay.
Harris proceeds to elaborate on the process of revision, focusing on the importance of five basic tasks - addition, deletion, reworking, reformatting, and moving (445). Using an English student’s essay as an example, he explains the various functions of revision through analyzing several drafts of the essay over time. This visualization of the essay’s changes helps the reader to create an effective “map” of the revision process and to understand the benefits of the revisions made
Perhaps the foremost ethical question that presents itself to technical writers revolves around the question “What makes a piece of writing acceptable to one’s audience?” On the surface, this is a seemingly uncomplicated thought. Unfortunately, however, it is one that few professional writers attempt to answer. This question can be approached by remembering that the ultimate goal of any form of writing is to spark an interest in the reader that will cause she or he to want to follow the writer’s thoughts to the end of the work. One way to ensure that the audience will remain attentive is to refrain from offending those who have expressed a desire to read your words. This issue is largely a matter of ethics and one that can harm or assist one’s career in technical writing. Alienation of one’s audience defeats the purpose of the work that accompanied the research and writing of the text in the first place. If technical writers simply exercise empathy and remember a few ethical and commonsensical ideas, they will find themselves far more successful in their chosen field.
Anna-Maria I believe that Adler’s central idea was to encourage readers to write “between the lines.” To support this claim Adler provided readers with strategies and suggestions
The introduction to Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts was interesting because it emphasized how writers writing about other works should go beyond what is blantly written by the author and interpret the piece in their own way. Joseph Harris, the author, begins to explain the importance of a writer “to say something new and say it well”, which is different from what many of my past English teachers would tell me how to