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Revision

September 02, 2024 • Mark Sutton

This episode will discuss strategies for revision, the aspect of writing process that focuses on making major changes to a draft.

Episode transcript

Note: While editing this episode, I realized that I misspoke a researcher's name. I said Alex Horning when I meant Alice Horning. I apologize for the error.

Additional Materials:

Handouts on the revision activities discussed in the episode:
- Hot-spotting
- Reverse Outlining (from the Duke University Writing Center)
- Cutting Up a Draft
"Revising Drafts" from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center
Revision: History, Theory, and Practice, edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker (Note: This link leads to an e-book that focuses on research into revision.)
"Poster Page: Revision" from the journal College Composition and Communication.
MIT Global Studies' "Revise" and "Instructions for Revising" from The Writing Process
L. Lennie Irvin's "Changing Your Mindset about Revision" (article in Volume 5 of Writing Spaces)