My revision process entails writing a rough draft and then thinking about it for a few days before going back and rewriting each paragraph, keeping the content the same but changing the wording slightly and adding support where needed. I think that this works best for me because it tends to clarify my argument and make it as concise as possible while still providing the reader with valuable information.
As far as this class goes, I found that my revision process drastically changed throughout the quarter based on the style of argument and who the audience was. When revising each paper, I edited sections of the paper that would make my argument stronger to my target audience.
For WP#1, writing to an academic audience required that I do extensive rewriting of each paragraph to add supporting statistics and information to make my ethos stronger. I agreed with Murray when he said, “Now it has to be re-edited, revised, re-read, and re-re-edited, for each piece of writing to the writer is full of potential and alternatives.” I was not satisfied with my first writing project because I felt that there could have been more done in the editing process, concurring with Murray’s belief.
In WP #2, I found that the target audience forced me to edit my paper in a way that I was not as comfortable doing. The largest thing that I changed in the second project was my paragraph length. I had to break up many of my larger paragraphs, which made each sentence more important individually. This then required me to change some wording from academic to something more common, which was a challenge as I felt I was degrading my writing. As Murray says in his article, we have to make information easily digestible for the audience, and that was my main focus when revising the second project.
My revisions of WP #3 followed a little bit of both my strategies for the first two projects. I had to support my evidence a bit more like I had to do in the first project. I added some key elements to support my argument and build my ethos while also sticking to what my audience would be able to digest and build discussion from.
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