Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).
English 110 has taught me many things about my writing habits that I had practiced before. I noticed a lot of times that I tend to write whatever I am thinking down on the paper which can get confusing for me and the reader which carries over into the final draft. I also had never kept my copy of my draft the same and would change everything on my draft to become my final paper. Now when I am writing my papers, I keep the final draft separate and make comments instead of changing everything around before I am done with my final paper so that I can lay things out much easier and where I was trying to come from initially. Something that I often edited in my papers this semester were whole paragraphs to help with the flow of the paper and also some key concepts that made sense to be introduced earlier or later in the papers. In paper 2, I moved a whole section of my fourth paragraph farther up to introduce one of my bigger ideas so that it would introduce the rest of the paragraph better. The quote below is the section that I moved up in the paragraph. This semester has shown me that I don’t always have to start completely over when the flow of my paper isn’t coming together, but rather switching up the organization can do a lot for the end product.
This can change the way children see the world while growing up especially if they are not exposed to many different kinds of people. The article “Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii” by Velasquez-Manoff suggests that when being around people of so many different religions and heritages causes a more open minded view of the different backgrounds and diverse lives of everyone around. Velasquez-Manoff provides a good inference about why we might do so much covering and excluding, “We’re group animals. We instinctually divide the world into “us” and “them.” Groups compete with one another. They invariably enter into conflict. Even chimpanzee “tribes” wage war with one another, after all. We’re thus doomed to look down on people we’re not familiar with — to “otherize,” in modern academic jargon, those who don’t look or speak like us.” (Velasquez-Manoff).
