This reading got right to the crux of what I really had questions about regarding revision. I’ve always seen revision as just kind of “cleaning things up” instead of really trying improve my draft and refine the things I’m trying to say, so it was great to actually read about some strategies for distancing myself from my writing so that my revision can be more productive. I also really identified with the metaphor the author used relating a relationship to a writer’s relationship with the draft--I too have always been afraid of “breaking up” with my draft and it’s always hard to make changes because I’m afraid of wrecking things that are successful. Not knowing how to revise well has probably contributed to mediocre writing on my part in the past, simply because once I finished the first draft, I didn’t know where to go.
Luckily, I gained some direction from this reading about where to go now that I’m thinking about the portfolio project. Before reading this, I wasn’t really all that sure where to start with my revision or how to get going, but just by studying this reading I got kind of a better idea of where to move from here. Already I have several ideas about revisions that can be made in my ethnography and my argument paper.
I felt like this reading was also central to my goals in this class. I have never really had any problem with writing in such a way that I can be understood, the problem I have always had is in improving upon my first drafts and turning my mediocre writing into great writing. Because this was the main goal I set for this class, this reading about revision seemed to be particularly applicable to me.
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