Chapter 17 Summary

Chapter 17 is titled "Revising and Editing". This is the part where you go over your draft and evaluate.  Revising is important to your project. It allows you time to assess and focus on your writing situation. Revising is important by critically thinking about your readers, framing your arguments, considering your use of sources, organization of document, and genre and design. The next process in revising is thinking about what strategies to use. Saving multiple drafts and highlighting your main points, reasons, and evidence. Challenge yourself to make sure your argument can hold weight with you and the readers. This includes thinking about what your readers will say and playing devils advocate. Next you need to scan, outline, and map your document. To do this you just scan your headings and sub headings, scan the first sentence of each paragraph, and make sure your shifts are appropriate. Getting feedback also will make your document stronger. The next part of this chapter is about editing. Editing consists of assessing things in your document such as sentence structure and word use. Focus on accuracy by checking facts and every quotation you made. Check the spelling of names you have used. Focus on the economy of your project. This means reducing the number of words and removing stock phrases/wordy introductory. Make sure you are consistent in presenting your project. Focus on style and grammar.