The document provides tips for making global revisions to an essay. It recommends ensuring the essay has a clear thesis and supporting structure. The document also suggests considering the organization and whether a different structure would be more effective. Strong transitions between ideas should tie the essay together using techniques like forecasting and fulfillment. Opening sentences, thesis statements, and topic sentences should serve as clear signposts. Rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos should be identified and balanced.

1. REVISION TACTICS
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Created by Jennifer Zellner of University of Cincinnati

2. GLOBAL REVISIONS – CONTENT
 Make sure that you use
thesis/support structure
 This means that your essay is
designed around supporting your
thesis.
 This also means that your essay is
organized as a persuasive argument,
advocating for your point of view.

3. GLOBAL REVISIONS – STRUCTURE
 Consider how you have
organized your essay.
 Is it the most effective
method of organization?
 Play around with a
different form of
organization, see if that
different organization
changes the focus of
your essay.

4. GLOBAL REVISIONS – TRANSITIONS
 Now that you’ve tried a new form of organization,
make sure that your transitions are strong.
 Use Old before New to tie ideas together.
 Remember the ideas of forecasting and fulfillment.

5. GLOBAL REVISIONS – SIGNPOSTS
 Make sure that your opening sentence, thesis
statement, and topic sentences all function as
signposts.

6. GLOBAL REVISIONS – RHETORICAL APPEALS
 Go through your paper with three different colored
pens/markers.
 Highlight/underline moments where you use ethos,
pathos, and logos.
 Look at the different colors, are they well balanced?