Revision Strategies

Reading Response 18 helped me to learn the important skills how to improve my paper.

In the article "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" conducted by Nancy Sommers, the author explains that students do not know how to use the phrase "revision." The reason of this is that only teachers use this term. In this case, they students have the different opinions what they need to do during the revision process. Nancy Sommers provides the revision strategies of student writers:

1. ​“Scratch Out and Do Over Again” - is one of the most useful methods to make your draft paper much better. It focuses on moving or changing the sentences and rewording.

2. “Reviewing” – is pretty similar with the previous point. The main aspect here is to eliminate unnecessary words which do not make any sense.

3. “Redoing” – is when the student decides to clean up the paper and cross out. The sentences which do not connect with the thesis or just the idea.

During checking of my last draft, I used "Reviewing" and "Redoing" methods to make my paper much better. For example, I rewrote one of the sentences which did not have enough explanation. "Nike and Adidas know how to influence people" - "The leadership and management of Nike and Adidas know..." Next one, I decided to remove some part of the sentence, because this information was already mentioned before: “It means that each collection (Adidas and Nike) belongs to Messi and Ronaldo.”