Learning Outcome 1: Revision

Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision)

In Paper 2, I made a lot of revisions between the first draft and final product. For example, I made local revision, as seen with how I fixed a grammar error at the beginning of the second paragraph where I initially wrote “This is part of the reason why…. America, against immigrantion,”. The word “immigrantion” was fixed in the final draft to be “immigration”. Typos like these that crop up in my papers are being under the process of being minimized throughout the semester as I try to get better at proofreading my work. The draft also underwent global revisions, such as how I ended up flipping the whole 5th paragraph around where I moved the part about isolation to come before the proposed solution to the problem. This shows that I struggle with organizing my ideas, but I have been teaching myself how to better structure my papers. Overall, these changes undergone in the revision process show me that I have gotten better at rewriting, restructuring, and adding more changes to my drafts as time has gone on. When I started this course, I originally didn’t use rough drafts as I believe they were intended. I wrote basically the same thing for the rough draft and the final paper, the only differences might be the rewording of a sentence or fixing a typo. Now though I feel like a lot of my rough drafts are wildly different from the final one. This change in writing, and thinking, has made me better at strengthening my ideas and removing grammatical errors from my final drafts.