Revising involves re-seeing your work, often aided by feedback provided by a reader (your instructor in this case). Revision begins with “global” concerns related to your writing’s organization and development. This includes your thesis, introduction, topic sentences, support, transitions, and conclusion. When revising, you have an opportunity to add, change, delete, or rearrange as needed. The goal is to make necessary and beneficial changes. Depending on your rough draft, this can involve few or no alterations, or it can involve substantially expanding or rewriting your essay. After your essay’s ideas and content are set, you will then edit and proofread to correct errors. Check for grammar, punctuation, mechanics, spelling, citation formatting, and page formatting. The result of your revision and editing will be a final draft, which should reflect the best version of your writing.
Global Revision
During global revision, you will focus on your essay’s “big picture.” You will consider the essay’s introduction (hook and thesis), organization (topic sentences, transitions, and order of ideas), development (amount, quality, and relevance of evidence), and conclusion. Also consider whether or not your essay meets length and sourcing requirements.
The feedback that you received on your rough draft can help you assess your essay’s needs, but you should consider your own perceptions of your work as well. You may have few to no changes to make during this stage, or you may need to substantially expand or rewrite your essay.
Editing and Proofreading
During editing and proofreading, you will focus on grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, and formatting. Pay attention to any errors marked up in your rough draft, but please understand that your instructor did not necessarily mark all of them. Similarly, technology such as spell check, Grammarly, or the Editor function in Word can flag potential errors, but it will not necessarily identify all of them. Ultimately, you are responsible for editing and proofreading your work. Read your writing one sentence at a time and look and listen to determine where adjustments or corrections may need to be made.
Finally, please check citation and page/document formatting to ensure that they follow the conventions of MLA Style.
Objectives
This assignment assesses the course learning outcomes Demonstrate writing as a recursive process, Demonstrate writing and inquiry in context using different rhetorical strategies to reflect, analyze, explain, and persuade in a variety of genres and formats, Locate, evaluate, and incorporate relevant sources with proper documentation, Compose texts incorporating rhetorically effective and conventional use of language, and the module objectives Apply the conventions of Standard Written English and Revise and edit an essay.
Instructional Materials
Argument Essay Rough Draft
A Writer’s Reference sections C4 Reviewing, Revising, and Editing, and MLA.
Sample Argument Essay
Download Sample Argument Essayand Argument Paper, MLA Style
Download Argument Paper, MLA Style
Instructions
Read the Overview provided above.
Check the feedback that you received on your Argument Essay Rough Draft.
Revise and edit your essay.
Submit the revised and edited essay using the directions found in File Upload Assignments. I must receive your assignment in either a Word file or .pdf format in order for you to receive credit.