“Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).”
I am confident in my local revision abilities. My sentence structure and attention to detail have always been a strong suit of mine, so for this learning objective, I am going to focus on global revisions as I have learned and grown the most in this area. My thesis building has improved substantially since September and the first assigned essay.
I’ve been taught to be as clear as possible in your writing to repeat the question or prompt in your thesis along with your answer or stance. While this thesis is fine, my second essay’s thesis is not anywhere near as strong.
Here I am again, repeating the question in my answer which is a habit I don’t think I’ll ever be able to break. But I think my thesis for my third essay is the strongest- which I suppose is the point of this project, to see how much I’ve grown in these past few months.
My past two essays’ theses have been shorter and more succinct, which is what I’m used to. Getting out of my comfort zone with this thesis building only made my essay stronger, so I will absolutely be utilizing what I’ve learned in English this semester for any future writing assignments.
To briefly touch on local revision, I think my initial planning stage has improved. As you can see in my third essay’s screenshot, in my outline before I wrote I had three clear topics to talk about as well as a direction to head in for my counterargument paragraph.
