Revising for Purpose

Ballenger discusses the ideas and concepts in his essay about revising a research paper. He mentions that trying to view your paper with a decisive view or objective view will always help correcting your paper easier. Yet so many of us, including myself look at our own papers and when we read it to ourselves we don't see the errors that might emerge in our papers. Does it flow well, does it flow well with the integrated facts that we researched for the paper? The more common error Ballenger mentioned was the ability to take the facts we drew from other readings and change the wording into our own, while siting the source, to allow your own words and facts flow together to make sense to the reader. In this reading it discusses ways to help one try to discover ways to get all aspects of the paper to flow. In this class we are about to take our essay and cut up portions of it and try and place certain phrases to see if they will match up with another. Now there will be failed attempts but that is how we discover what works or not. There is also ways that are easier by reading the essay out loud to yourself or other people. This will allow you to hear differences or at least see if the sentences flow together. Reading or letting other people read your essay will allow input that you may not have known or thought about to integrate into your paper. Which is the beauty of individualism since most people can view their own writing with a tunnel view point. I know personally when I edit my paper, its brief and I just look for the easy to find things. With patients and strategy I can find my errors and perfect what I can to allow my paper to sound better and seem more fluid. So Ballenger is right, finding ways that works for you to help edit/ revise your paper to make it better is something every write should and needs to do. Since your first try will never be as good as several attempts down the road.