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Revision as of 22:29, 12 April 2008
Contents
Introduction
Editing and Revising is the final stage of the writing process that allows you to transform the draft you have into a flawless piece of writing. Essentially, this is where you 'hunt' for mistakes and take a look at the whole document to see if things make sense and sound right.
Editing and Revising Steps
Following are the steps to be followed, as suggested in the course text. We shall summarize each one of them, and provide additional details obtained from class exercises and web resources.
Revision Step 1: Adjust and Reorganize Content
Adjusting and Reorganizing content includes:
- Elaborating a point
- Shortening sections
- Changing location of sentences, sections or paragraphs
- Removing extraneous information such as unnecessary summary
- Checking the logical flow of ideas and fixing them
Revision Step 2: Edit for Style
Style refers to changes that make your writing more interesting, engaging, readable and different from the writing of others. It allows you to express your individuality, and is an important ingredient in keeping the reader interested.
Style includes:
- Using an appropriate tone. These include:
- Casual Tone
- Objective Tone
- Persuasive Tone
- Enthusiastic Tone
- Serious Tone
- Authoritative Tone
- Friendly Tone
- Writing clear sentences
- This includes
