Revision Re-thought

John Bonner
English 102
November 18, 2009
Reading Response
The final week of this paper is going to be solely revision. This is going to be difficult because like Ballenger said we all form a relationship with our papers and nobody will want to change. I know that I will look upon my paper with perfection, due to all the hard work I put in, but the reality is that I know that it is not perfect and that it is just simply a first draft. What will I do to get over this hump, I know lets do some exercises.
Now, I know that I may have had a mocking tone but I truly believe that this revision and the exercises will prove its worth to me. Like I said I am going to be stubborn and I need a way to look through my paper and see it with a fresh pair of eyes. Which is one of the processes I will chose to employ. There are certain people I know that I trust their opinion and they happen to be great at English, lucky for me they haven’t read a single word that I have wrote, so truly my paper will be looked upon by a fresh pair of eyes.
Along with the second look around there are some things that I learned from this reading that will benefit me, for instance the highlighting and the cut paste exercise. I believe that the cut and paste is what we will be doing on Wednesday, but I’ll wait and see. I know that if we do not perform this exercise I will do it for my own benefit.
The other point that I learned from this reading is how to physically re-write the paper, not change the stance but rather just take a step back and think to myself it my stance coming across clear and who is going to care about this subject. I know that I will learn a lot from this revision process, and hopefully make a great paper that I can look back on.