After reading Chapter 5 in Bruce Ballenger's Curious Reader , the information provided me with a few thoughts on the process of revising my drafts for the final portfolio. First, I printed a copy of my ethnographic essay to execute the dirty deed of marking all over it with 2 highlighters. With trembling fingers I inched them towards the page to disfigure its pristine whiteness with bright yellow slashes. The marker tumbled from my finger tips towards the carpeted floor, as I stared at the untouched paper before my eyes. How could I do such a thing to something that took endless hours of thought and labored fingers upon the computer keyboard? I had cultivated the tight relationship to my essay which Bruce had mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 5.
Then the idea of cutting the precious essay into fragmented parts to hopefully resemble a cohesive article was definitely not on option in my mind. So, I convened at the keyboard restating and fixing the points that our professor, Christy Vance , had suggested in the margins of the supposed final draft. I carried my endeavors with me to work and asked fellow co-workers to mark upon its pure pages with the dreaded red pen. Now,the pages are passes from person to person receiving opinions to hopefully expand my work to perfection.
In the beginning, I thought to myself, how hard can it be to revise and fix the errors. It was more difficult than it appeared. After a couple of minutes of contemplating the changes from my colleagues, my fingers flew across the computer keys bringing out new views and language to improve the clarity of my ethnogrphic composition. Bruce was correct, this is challenging, but worth the endeavor into the revising excursion of my essay.
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