Book Description
for Deep Revision by Meredith Sue Willis
From the Publisher
If your students groan and go limp when you Suggest they revise their writing, this is the book for you. Deep Revision covers: Revision as a natural process
-- Learning to revise by editing other people's writing
-- Learning to revise by using other people's comments on your writing
-- Going deeper by adding
-- Changing media to revise
-- Using point of view and voice for revising fiction
-- Revising nonfiction with the techniques of fiction
-- Learning revision by revising existing works of literature
-- Beginning and polishing
-- Structuring the longer work. Willis gives a wealth of specific revision exercises for both fiction and nonfiction, as well as examples from her own students and from literature.
-- Learning to revise by editing other people's writing
-- Learning to revise by using other people's comments on your writing
-- Going deeper by adding
-- Changing media to revise
-- Using point of view and voice for revising fiction
-- Revising nonfiction with the techniques of fiction
-- Learning revision by revising existing works of literature
-- Beginning and polishing
-- Structuring the longer work. Willis gives a wealth of specific revision exercises for both fiction and nonfiction, as well as examples from her own students and from literature.
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