chapter 15: revising your drafts
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Chapter 15: Revising Your Drafts. Read, Listen, Implement. Checking Your Draft Yourself Reviewing Your Draft Managing Your Revising Time. Three Activities of Revising. Checking Your Draft Yourself. From your reader’s point of view. Checking Your Draft Yourself. From your - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Chapter 15: Revising Your
Drafts
Read, Listen, Implement
Checking Your Draft YourselfReviewing Your DraftManaging Your Revising Time
Checking the Draft Yourself
Reviewing Your Draft
Managing Your Revising
Time
Three Activities of Revising
Checking Your Draft Yourself
From your reader’s point of view
Checking Your Draft Yourself
From your employer’s point of view
Checking Your Draft Yourself
Distance yourself from your draft
Checking Your Draft Yourself
Check it twice and change your focus
Checking Your Draft Yourself
Computer aids: part of the solution- not the cure
Spelling and Grammar Check
Checking Your Draft Yourself
Be ethical: think about your stakeholders’ perspective
Reviewing Drafts
Discuss objectives
Reviewing DraftsPositive relationships make happy writers and
reviewers
Reviewing Drafts
Do you have taste?
Reviewing DraftsBe an explorer
Reviewing Drafts
Be helpful
Reviewing DraftsBe ethical: Review from your stakeholders’
perspective
Managing Your Revising Time
Invest wisely- buy high, sell low, adjust to the situation
Managing Your Revising Time
Significant revisions come first
Managing Your Revising Time
Be diplomatic
Managing Your Revising Time
Revise to learn
Let’s Review the Three
Checking the
Draft Yourself
Reviewin
g Your Draft
Managing Your Revis
ing Time