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Revision
Students will be able to negotiate differences in and act with intention on feedback from readers when drafting, revising, and editing their writing.
Project 1: Revised Draft and Letter to Readers
This assignment is a part of my Gordan Rule assignment, my project 1 research paper. This draft called for me to receive feedback from a peer regarding my first draft and revise the draft according to my peer’s suggestions. This assignment fits the criteria for revision as I was able to use the recommended actions provided to me by my peer and apply them to my first draft of writing to improve the quality of my overall work. In my letter to my readers, I stated the type of revision that I wanted for my specific draft, “I would like feedback about the flow of my essay and the organization of my ideas and sources. I would also like feedback regarding sentence structure and clarity” (Leonard 7). As I revised my assignment, I reflected on my writing and inquired on how to make it better. This assignment impacted me because it allowed me to apply genuine review suggestions from one of my peers so that I could
improve the quality of my final draft. This is important to me as I now see the value and peer revision and I hope to ask my peers to review my work in the future because a peer will see things that you as a writer simply can’t see on your own. I reflected on my writing process during my letter to my readers for this assignment. I was able to read through my writing and provide information on what I liked and disliked about the writing. I was writing in a formal style, which I am used to, but being able to do self-reflection on my writing allowed me to see my work from a second point of view.
Project 2: Conference Draft and Letter to Readers
This assignment is the conference draft, or revised draft of my Gordan Rule assignment, project 2. I was prompted to take the peer review suggestions of my first draft for project 2 and incorporate them into my conference draft. This assignment meets the criteria for acting on feedback from readers when revising writing by showcasing my self-reflection of my writing and where I think I could do better as well as showing how I was able to take my feedback from my peer and revise my draft accordingly. This assignment is significant to me as it showed me the importance of having a peer review of your writing because it shows you as a writer how people see your writing from different perspectives. When reflecting on my draft in my letter to my readers, I stated that “I am most concerned about ensuring that my analysis of the rhetorical strategies is thorough and insightful” (Leonard 6). This reflective inquiry
represents my willingness to improve my writing and apply my peer’s suggestions to my draft. As I revised my prompt, I reflected on my writing and saw ways that I could make it more digestible to my readers.