After reading the assigned pages from the Curious Researcher, I felt hopeful. I have previously done some of the suggested exercises and found them to be helpful. The cut and paste method really helps you to pare down your draft and get to bone structure. I loved how he talked about becoming attached to your draft. I find that to be so true. After having put all the time into these 8+ page drafts it is hard to cut the hard earn text out and go back and start again.
The benefits to re-research are immense. Adding some new articles here and there finding more information about your topic, all these things will be beneficial to any one revising a draft. I also liked how that tied in with the rewriting your thesis exercise. By rewriting our thesis we may discover a new alley into our central idea or as Ballenger says, you can “re-see” your draft in a new light.
I am excited to start the revision process and try to discover my drafts in a new way that will make them clearer and possibly much better. I think that revision is the most important process we can learn from English 102. A first draft is always important for without it we cannot revise but you publish first drafts. Learn to revise effectively will benefit us in all facets of life. Whether we are English majors or Engineers, we will be writing reports or books and we need to be able to revise those to make them more understandable and to be able to see where they need to be improved upon.
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