Project 1 Revision Process

My revision process for Project 1 was more informal than my initial writing process for Project 1. I tend to take a lot of time to outline my ideas before putting them into a rough draft, so I feel like I had a lot of my final ideas for my paper are present in my first draft. Revising is one of the toughest parts of the overall writing process for me because once I have my ideas written down, I find it hard to alter my thesis and ideas while keeping the overall theme the same. When I revise, I find myself pointing out the grammatical or structural issues in my paper. This time around, I really tried to scan my essay for problems regarding content. I wanted to see if all of my sources and pieces of evidence related back to my thesis, as well as connected with each other. In EN11 we did an annotated bibliography where we had to synthesize a bunch of sources, so I had a basic understanding of what I needed to do, but I found it difficult to do for this specific topic. I feel like the sources we are working with this semester are very complex and hard to fully understand, so I had to take extra time before starting the project to refresh my memory on Beck and Johnson’s readings. Overall, I feel like my process was effective. I was able to add some things that contributed to my claim, as well as worked on the synthesis of my sources. Since classes were canceled on Tuesday, I took some time that afternoon to revise my paper. While revising, I felt like my ideas were coming together. Sometimes when I write the first draft, I am going so fast trying to get all my ideas down that I’m not sure if it all makes sense together. The revision process is the time when I can read over my work, and see where my argument has holes and where it can be stronger. In the future, I’d like to gain stronger revision skills that I can utilize on future assignments.