Revising Papers

Tonight, I attended the skills development workshop for revising papers. This workshop was held by the Writing Center. Ms. Liberatore was the workshop leader, and she was accompanied by a student that works at the Writing Center, Sarah. The two of them were very interactive with all of the students at attended. They used a slide show to go through the process of revising papers and even had a handout of the entire slide show. The workshop took about an hour and they didn't even get to go touch upon everything that they wanted. They had other handouts to give us through out the workshop. I would say that the handouts and the workshop in general was helpful. The tips for revising papers. for me, were more helpful then the workshop in itself.

They talked about the Writing Center and how they revise papers. Revising in different from editing. When you edit a paper, you check for grammatical errors and keep the same form of the paper. Revising an essay is trying to look at the essay in a different way. You pay attention to the focus and form of the paper. Grammar is important, but not the making or breaking point for an essay. Making sure that your thesis matches up with all of the points throughout your paper. Rereading your essay over and over again will help you to notice the mistakes that you have made. Reading your essay out loud to yourself, or even to a friend, was another good tip that they gave us. Overall, the workshop was helpful. They want to hold another one in the spring and i plan on attending that one as well.