Revision Plan

You will be expected to complete a revision plan for your second draft, due Thursday, March 14 in class.  Please choose TWO of the following activities and complete them as part of the revision plan.  Chose the activities that you believe will benefit the final project the most:

1.  Editing Checklist and Error Log:  Looking through your draft, create a list of at least 10 items that you would check for as part of final revision.  These items can be mechanical (grammar, sentence structure, punctuation) or they could be content-based (topic sentences, transitions, strong thesis carried througout the paper) or they could be documentation-related (proper in-text citations, good variety of signal phrases/lead-ins, correct works cited documentation). THEN, choose at least 10 errors from your paper and complete an error log for these 10 errors.  (You can use the form that I provided you in class, or you can create your own.)

2.  New Introduction and Conclusion:  Isolate and revise just your introductory paragraph(s) and concluding paragraph(s), checking for strong thesis, unity, a hook, something to leave the reader with.  These revised introductions/conclusions should be PERFECTLY edited as well.

3.  Feedback Talkback:  Provide me with a copy of your commented-upon draft with your own feedback and comments.  Think of this as an opportunity to have a dialogue with me about your work, as well as an opportunity to begin to think about how you might integrate suggestions into your work.

4.  Submission to Etutoring:  Submit your essay to etutoring for comments.  Provide me with a copy of the comments you received from etutoring, as well as a solid paragraph evaluating the usefulness of this activity. (Will you take the suggestions, which ones?  What feedback did you find valuable?  What feedback was confusing?  Would you use etutoring again?  Why or why not?  Be sure, when you submit the paper, that you have answered all the questions they have asked in full (including uploading your ENTIRE assignment prompt and telling them what you'd like them to look at). 

5.  Narrative Revision Plan:  Write a two page narrative explaining how you plan to revise the essay, what revisions you think are most vital, and how you are going to accomplish that revision.  This should be detailed and thoughtful.

6.  Attack the Draft:  Pull your draft apart--use sticky notes, flags, highlighters, pens, scissors and tape (if needed!) to physically show how you plan to revise the draft both in terms of content and organization.

7.  Perform a Reverse Outline:  Go through the process on the handout from Tuesday's class.  Provide me with a version of that work.