Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adults

In my opinion the title says everything. The author wants to know about the difference between students and young adults when it comes to revision, and what are the steps that each one of them do in the process of revision. the purpose of this is to show the reader to revise properly your documents and not do the same mistake as a student. The revision needs to be since the beginning, at the moment you start writing, that's were the revision needs to be made. The author made a study with twenty freshmen at Boston University and the University of Oklahoma with SAT verbal scores ranging in 450 to 600 in their first semester of English and composition, and twenty experience adults writers from Boston and Oklahoma city that includes journalists, editors, and academics, and each one of them had to write three essays with their rough drafts (almost like four times). Revision is defined in many ways, students define revision not as a word they used but as a word their teachers used, some of the definitions are scratch out and do it over again, reviewing, redoing, marking out, and slashing and throwing out.They think is a rewording activity but on the contrary, revision is deletion, substitution, addition, and reordering. The four levels of revision are word, phrase, sentence, and theme. In my opinion I think the author learn how students use revision when doing a paper, and how experience writers do it, but I also think that there should be something to help the teachers and the students understand the truth meaning of revision.


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Responding to Student Writing

 The author of this article is trying to know how students find it so hard to understand the feedback that the teachers gave them in their assignments such as essays. But also helping the reader to evaluate what they have written. He is also trying to convince the teachers to help the students not confusing them when they are making corrections in the rough draft. When the teachers write comments on the essays is important because the writer knows his mistakes and the stuff that went wrong, but what the article is saying is that the teachers make it very confusing. The author really wanted to know why this issue affected the students and if it was really the teachers fault. They make an experiment by using thirty-five teachers at New York University  and the University of Oklahoma and their students, but the teachers graded the first and second rough draft of the essays. But to make the experiment even better the students also had to write an essay on a computer and they used a program called "Writer's Workbench", that could scan the essay more quickly. The hard part was that the teachers were the ones that confuse the poor students with their mean comments and comments that destroy the whole point of the essay. Appropriate in text means that the teacher wants to take away with her comments from the original purpose or idea, and of course, she doesn't see the whole idea. What the author learn on this study was that the teachers doesn't help them a lot with their commentaries, but in defense the teachers say that they need workshops to learn. The students need to learn to interpret the teachers commentaries so they can make the correct corrections and the students don't go away from his point of view. Correction by the teacher on the firsts drafts are good for the students as long what they are writing is coherent, and they are just grammatical. I really agree with everything the author say because I am a student and I have felt very lost or confuse when a teacher comments me something that I don't know what she wants me to do. But know on I will try to put my ideas in a correct order and if a teacher makes me a correction be sure what she is talking about and that she is not going away from my idea.