3. In her introduction and in analyzing students' descriptions of revision, Sommers focuses quite a lot on the difference between speech and writing. In your own words what is she saying that difference is between the two, and why is this difference relevant to how we understand revision?
5. What do you think Sommers means when she says that for experienced writers, revision is based on a non-linear theory in which a sense of the whole writing both precedes and grows out of an examination of the parts? What does she mean by "the whole writing"? What does it mean for writing processes to be non-linear (not a straight line of progress from beginning to end)? And why do you think that experienced writers see writing as non-linear but student writers tend to see writing as linear?
7. Does this match what you have been taught about writing and revising?
1. Sommers says that the students tend to revise by asking themselves can they find a better word or phrase, a more impressive, and are they repeating the same word or phrases too often. She also says students should use a thesaurus.
3. To me you write the way you speak. If you speak a certain way you're going to write a certain way. I think that the more you write the better your vocabulary gets.
5. Because sometimes when people write they just put down the first thing that comes to mind. They start getting off topic and lose the reader. People get so lost in their writing that they are just all over the place with the topic.
7. I think revising is the most important part of writing. If you don't revise your paper then there really was no reason to write it in the first place.
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