Analysis Of The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript By Donald Murray

In “The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript,” Donald Murray explains how the writing process truly begins after a progression of rough drafts. Murray addresses how revising your draft is essential to discovering the real meaning to writing. The purpose of this excerpt is to demonstrate to readers how important revisions can be on improving your writing.

Murray says that writing is never finished in the writer's eye; it can always be altered and rearranged. He discusses that writers need to learn to become their hardest judge, which is a very difficult skill to grasp. They must also learn to accept harsh criticism and praise others. When criticizing one’s own work, the writer must separate themselves from their work and put themselves in the audience’s perspective. When Murray says that students often think they’re done after they’ve written their first draft I totally agree. Students think they are done because they are too lazy and they lack the initiative to revise. They simply don’t want to do it because it’s too much work. With that said, it can

totally be relatable to others.
Rewriting papers can helps create a better understanding about what the writer wants to address.

Murray described how meaning, audience, structure, development, and voice are all crucial when a writer edits their drafts. The revision process helps the writer to create writing pieces which are attentively judged. Everything within a writing piece is structured, balanced and thoroughly explained. Each and every detail must be thought of carefully because everything is devoted to the meaning. Murray describes how writers edit with their knowledge gained from previous experience. He then states how writing helps the authors to better understand the concepts they are writing about. Towards the end of his excerpt Murray talks about “the maker’s eye.” He portrays how the maker’s eye is steadily analyzing what it sees. The enhancement in developing revisions will make the writing piece’s meaning more clear and

reasonable.
After reading Donald M. Murray’s “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts,” I feel like I understand and relate to what he is talking about. I also find myself constantly correcting and editing my rough drafts. My first draft is definitely never my finished product. It usually takes me a good three times rewriting a paper till I am somewhat satisfied with how it turns out. Murray’s excerpt has made me believe that maybe there are no real endings to a perfect paper. I definitely agree with Murray as well as other writers out there that improvement is key to becoming prosperous. I now think that every time I start to read a piece of writing I will always remember this specific guide and be reminded that revision is another draft away.
This reading was very informative about the many skills writers need to develop in order to become better at their work. From reading this excerpt you learn that writers are never satisfied and grow on the opportunity to change and modify their papers. This is why a piece of writing never ends.