My strategy for finishing my final draft of my writing prompt is full of many different steps. First the most easy step I need to get done is finish writing the rest of my paper. That is number one on the list of my goals. Once I get the rest of my paper done, I usually quickly revise it myself looking for small things like grammar and any typos I may have missed. Then I will have a peer also review my paper and have them go through and look for the global edits I would have missed if I read my own paper. As they revise my paper, I will take notes about their suggestions and ideas that I think will help strengthen my paper. After this I will go back and add in my peer’s ideas in my paper and reread it again. If I feel there needs to be more ideas or quotations in my paper, I will go back and read through the assigned readings again and try and pull more out of them. I find when I do this that there are things in the reading that stand out to me that didn’t stand out the first time I read it. Once I shuffled around some sentences and added some new ideas, I will go to a different peer and have them revise my improved work. They will add more ideas and suggestions to my paper, and like in the previous steps, I will go back and them where they suggested or where I see fit. Once I do that I will reread my work and by this time, I think the paper is perfect, but I play it safe and I’ll have one more person read my paper. If they say it’s good and give e a thumbs up, I go print it and hand it in. The revision is the most important part of the whole process, because without it I’d still be stuck on square one.
I agree with you that the revision is the most important part of the a writing project. Continue to push yourself and your text. 🙂 3/3