10. Read more = write better
9. Stalk sentences: use examples of what good writing looks and sounds like. We read enough “bad” writing as it is
8. Skinny to steroids
7. Ask good questions of the writer to help him identify what needs revision. In the absence of good questions, ask “What do you think?”
6. Conference! Deliberately conference and address revision
5. I have a long way to go as a teacher of revision
4. Teaching revision is one of the most important components of writing—but it is among the least of the components that is explicitly taught
3. Revision is in the eye of the beholder (however selective)
2. Good writers revise well…
1. …or, Good revisers write well?
I like your 4 & 6 of revision.
ReplyDeleteIt's a challenge work to make students to fall in love with revision! But How important it is!!