1. Revising and Rewriting

2. “Big Deals”
Thesis Tone Audience Purpose Style Support

3. “The Basics”
Mechanics
Grammar
Syntax
Spelling

4. Order of Operations
Peer review
Focus to as well as Check for
those Big self editing grammar
Organization
Deal items for cohesion, and
listed above organization mechanics
and support

5. THESIS

6. Did I say anything…
Interesting?
Useful?
New or risky?
Important to the reader and
also to me, the writer?

7. PURPOSE
Why am I writing?
What do I hope to accomplish?
What do I want the reader to do?

8. Audience:
Consistent
Throughout?

9. TONE
Is this tone
touching/interesting/
compelling/powerful
? this tone interesting/compelling?
Is
How does
this tone serve my serve my purpose?
How does this tone
purpose?
How does
How does thisout to reach out to my
this tone reach
tone
audience?
my audience?

10. SUPPORT

11. Have you given your
audience enough
information?
Are there gaps in
Is your support
your reasoning,
consistently
areas that require
supporting your
more or stronger
thesis?
explanation?
Are there
Is your support
contradictions? If
logical and
so, how do you
cohesive?
explain them?

12. The Basics

13. Switching from writer-centered to
reader-centered

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Why?

15. Coherence and cohesion
Underline main points…

16. Peer feedback

17. Verb tense
CONSISTENT
CORRECT

18. Clear pronoun usage

19. Unclear Pronoun Use
FRESH MEAT!
The butcher kills himself twice weekly.

20. Better way to say that?
FRESH MEAT!
The butcher slaughters his stock twice weekly

21. CUT WORDINESS!
Remove the clutter

22. Put your
extra
words
on a diet

23. Proofread
“Whether” VS “weather”
“there”
“their”
“they’re”

24. You deserve a reward for
completing the revision
process…