Friday, July 6, 2012
SI 2 Questions??
My question that I would like to explore is how to get my students revising their work ?? So often students and adults are happy with that first initial writing. However, everytime one reads his or her piece over again things can always be changed to make things sound better and clarify meaning.
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What an exciting question Reynelda! Revision is one of those tough things, I think because many of us think we are doing it because we didn't get it right the first time. There has to be a shift of mind I think, where revisioning a piece of writing with different contexts and conversations in mind is simple part of what writers do!
ReplyDeleteAwesome question....and a really tricky one. Revision is something that we just do. We see something that isn't right or not conveying the meaning we intend, and we know to revise. Other times, we don't know what to revise, but know it needs revision...and we see out others for help. But, in a writing classroom, it sees like students seem to equate revision with something other than the process we instinctively do. Right? It's either something that, if we force/require it, gets done artificially. Or, if we encourage to happen naturally, doesn't get done. I think one important piece in the difference between how we see revision and our students often do is the sense of audience. I think that when a writer cares about how his/her words will be received, then the need for revision is felt more authentically.
ReplyDeleteI think revision is attached to engagement and understanding of writing. Revision is about audience, about refining your work so that your readers fill the gaps in your text in the ways best appropriate for communicating their message. I often wonder at the disconnect between writing because it is assigned, and writing to actually say something, and how that affects revision. I also wonder if students are failing to realize the revision that goes into the texts they read...
ReplyDeleteWe live in an age where our primary forms of writing aren't revision-heavy kind of stuff (there seems to be only a small number of us who proofread or revise text messages before sending them), and the "real" writing we read (published stuff), has all been heavily proofed before we ever see it. The importance--and prevalence--of revision seems a concept lost on so many...