For my Significant Writing Project I approached the revision process as “Let’s find the strongest argument I’m trying to make here and put a spot light on it.” I knew I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to argue and focus on since the prompt itself was so broad. I think that in this case, my approach to revision was a lot like how Sommers described the experienced writers revise their papers. She said, “The experienced writers do the opposite (as student writers): they seek to discover (to create) meaning in the engagement with their writing, in their revision.” In my revision I worked on finding out which topics I wanted to focus on and dropped the topics I didn’t want to focus on. I decided that I didn’t want to focus on social media or how people objectify women when it comes to beauty. I wanted to focus on something how people miss out on the beautiful things in life. After revising this paper, I figured out that my revision philosophy is to pull out the best, most supported claim and argument in my first draft and what to elaborate versus what to cut out of my essay. I found that my revision process for this paper had the most dramatic transformation out of all of my papers written for this class.
First Draft: English prompt 3
Formal Draft: Edited English prompt 3
