Blog #11: Writing & Revising

Over the past semester in English 101, my experiences with revision have definitely changed the way I view my writing and how I write all together. Knowing that your peers and teachers are going to be looking and critiquing your work, and that you will have to write at least one more draft based off the feedback, makes me work a lot harder while I’m writing. I put a lot more thought, effort and time into the research, brainstorming, drafting and revising into everything that I write, now that many people will be reading it. I appreciate that I get the chance to hear what was good and what needs work on my papers and then am able to incorporate that into my second draft. I have started to view my writing as something that can always improve, no matter how good I feel that I did on a first draft, there are always techniques that can make my paper THAT much better. Overall, I can definitely see that my writing is improving when it comes to structure and ideas I am choosing to include, and the increasing length of many of the essays I write. I am grateful for the amount of revising we’ve done in this class because it allows me to reflect on what I’ve written and work on making my skills even stronger.