Chapter 15: Revising Your

Drafts

Read, Listen, Implement

Checking Your Draft YourselfReviewing Your DraftManaging Your Revising Time

Checking the Draft Yourself

Reviewing Your Draft

Managing Your Revising

Time

Three Activities of Revising

Checking Your Draft Yourself

From your reader’s point of view

Checking Your Draft Yourself

From your employer’s point of view

Checking Your Draft Yourself

Distance yourself from your draft

Checking Your Draft Yourself

Check it twice and change your focus

Checking Your Draft Yourself

Computer aids: part of the solution- not the cure

Spelling and Grammar Check

Checking Your Draft Yourself

Be ethical: think about your stakeholders’ perspective

Reviewing Drafts

Discuss objectives

Reviewing DraftsPositive relationships make happy writers and

reviewers

Reviewing Drafts

Do you have taste?

Reviewing DraftsBe an explorer

Reviewing Drafts

Be helpful

Reviewing DraftsBe ethical: Review from your stakeholders’

perspective

Managing Your Revising Time

Invest wisely- buy high, sell low, adjust to the situation

Managing Your Revising Time

Significant revisions come first

Managing Your Revising Time

Be diplomatic

Managing Your Revising Time

Revise to learn

Let’s Review the Three

Checking the

Draft Yourself

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Managing Your Revis

ing Time