There are two parts to the assignment please see intructions below. I’ve attached the text book and the insturctions in addition to copy and pasting below.
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: pp. 303-305.
Lesson
Apply the following writing resources to your posts:
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Initial Post Instructions
Main Post Part 1: Share Your Revision Plan
You have now received feedback from your instructor and from your peers, and you have already been applying revision strategies to your draft in the past week.
This week, you will perform final, guided revisions in six levels: global, section, paragraph, sentence, word, and final proofreading. After you have read and studied the lesson and the assigned textbook readings for the week, you will make a plan for addressing these levels of revision.
In one full paragraph, please share how you are approaching revisions now and how you will continue to do so before submitting your final draft. In this paragraph, answer the following questions:
Which days and time slots on your calendar this week have you set aside to fully address each of the six distinct levels of revision as addressed in the lesson? Be very specific.
Why did you choose these days and time slots? Be very specific.
By now, you should have begun working through the stages of revision. Which stage are you in? Please share how you approached the stage(s) you have worked through. What insights have you gained? What changes have you made? Be very specific.
Main Post Part 2: Share Your Rewards Plan
We understand the importance of self-care and of rewarding ourselves for our good efforts. “Revision Week” can be stressful because revision takes hard mental work and time and because you may also be very busy in other classes or with other endeavors. Review the portion of the lesson that suggests ideas for rewarding yourself during your revision stages in order to stay refreshed and motivated.
In one full paragraph, please carefully describe at least three of your unique post-revision level rewards for this week.
What are the rewards?
Where do they occur?
What will they look like?
Who will be there?
How will each reward refresh you?
Be very specific and descriptive; let your classmates truly “see” the creative and rejuvenating choices you are making!
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least one peer. Here, in reading another’s post and replying to them, you will learn a great deal more about approaches to applying levels to revision and to avoiding burn-out through creating incentives. In your follow-up post, please share your thoughts on your classmate’s approaches to specific revision levels and note similarities and differences between your classmate’s approaches and your own. In addition, share your thoughts on your classmate’s ideas for self-reward, also noting similarities and differences between your classmate’s self-reward ideas and your own.
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Heather Sutton
Heather Sutton
2:55pmApr 11 at 2:55pm
Happy Week 7 everyone!
As we go into this week of finalizing this draft we have worked so hard on, there are three important steps we must remember; rewriting, editing, and proofing (Seyler, 2018). On Monday, I plan to write up my discussion and come up with my plan (as I am doing now). I did spend a significant amount of time this weekend making some adjustments that my peer review came back with. This includes referencing substance abuse in my intro, changing some acronyms that I had in my draft, making some changes in how I word statistical data so it doesn?t seem too overwhelming to my reader, and changing some in-text citations that needed adjustment. On Tuesday, from 1-3pm, I plan to re-read my paper and take notes on any rewriting or rewording that needs to be done. It is important to remember the purpose, audience, content and structure when rewriting any parts of my paper (Seyler, 2018). On Wednesday from 11-1, I will edit my paper. When editing, I need to make sure that the flow and transitions are inserted between paragraphs properly, and need to make sure the entire paper is in proper APA formatting. I also need to read over my sources to make sure they are property cited and referenced. Finally, on Thursday, I plan to take time between 1-3 to proofread and make final changes. I researched and found a few tips on proofreading: separate proofreading from other work, proofread at a set aside, specific, time, print a hard copy, read text aloud, go through the paper backwards, and use a blank piece of paper to read through line by line (Walden University, n.d.). I usually implement some of these into proofreading, but plan to try reading my paper backwards and using a blank piece of paper when I read through it. This will help ensure I focus on what I am reading, not what I am about to read. I am submitting the ?final? draft for review, so this will be a good time to see if there are any grammatical issues that I didn?t catch. My essay review should be back by Thursday, so I plan to make any changes Friday morning, around 11am. At that time, I will re-reread my paper thoroughly and submit it. At that point, I do a happy dance and celebrate! Which brings me to rewards?
At this point, I feel like I have worked on my draft hours between submissions, to ensure that it is well written and follows the rubric. This week will be fine-tuning and attention to detail. I plan on doing some proofing each day; I set aside more than enough time, so I should have plenty of time to revise. By constantly revising over the past few weeks, it has allowed me to have less stress this week, knowing my other classes would be drawing to an end and be demanding this week. I feel as if I have prepared and planned well, as not to feel too much stress at this point over this paper, but plan to reward myself this week to celebrate a huge accomplishment. I haven?t written an argumentative paper in probably twenty years or so; to say I was having anxiety over this assignment in the beginning is an understatement. However, I threw myself in, learned to research, outline, cite, draft, and be a fairly successful writer. I feel accomplished and ready to celebrate with some rewards. Each day, Tuesday through Friday, I will allow myself a little treat. Being so healthy, I rarely indulge, but plan to have my favorite cake Friday night-knowing my final draft is submitted! Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, I will treat myself before/after each bit of proofing by allowing myself a little something I don?t normally do. Tuesday, I will get myself my favorite Dunkin coffee before I sit down to re-write anything I find. Wednesday, I set time aside to take a 30 minute catnap after my editing session, before I have to go to work. This is a rare treat! Thursday, I will sit down to proofread and read my essay feedback with a protein muffin and scoop of Halo top ice cream (I love to snack while working but seldom do to avoid overeating during the day). Friday, as stated earlier, is my big treat day! I plan to go to Alpine bakery that day to pick out my favorite cake, which I will eat while binge watching my current binge-worthy show, Homeland. Due to school and work, I seldom get to watch much TV, but have set Friday night aside for some yummy dessert and relaxation! While I know we have another week left, just knowing that I have successfully submitted the essay I was dreading so much a few weeks ago, is a huge accomplishment and will be able to breathe a little easier. Good luck to everyone! We are almost to the finish line!
References
Seyler, D. (2018). Read, Reason, Write (12th Edition). McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions. https://ambassadored.vitalsource.com/books/9781260798708 (Links to an external site.)
Walden University. (n.d.). Writing a paper: Proofreading. Academic Guides. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/proofreading
