Since the beginning of the semester, I feel that my revision process for local and global revisions has gotten much better. Before this class, I was not good at revising. In high school, I would get my prompt, think of a few ideas, and then just write my paper. I never used to have a rough draft and a final draft unless it was required by my teacher, which was very seldom. In the beginning of the semester, I was not used to the idea of having to write rough drafts and then actually change them in order to have a final draft. It was just something that I was not used to doing. Now, I realize how the whole writing process that we have been doing all semester is to help me become a better writer. The rough draft is so you can get all of your ideas written down into an essay format. And then eventually move on to the final draft. In my rough draft, you can see that it is missing a lot and there are multiple mistakes. In one part of the paper I am talking about a TED talk, by Adichie. In my rough draft, I was not specific with who I was talking about. I used a lot of “she” and “her”, which can get confusing when you’re talking about two different people. In my final draft, I fixed the local revisions by getting rid of the “she’s” and “her’s” by adding in Adichie’s name or her roommates so it was easier to understand who I was talking about. For global revisions, at one point in my rough draft, I had an extra paragraph that was not needed. I made sure to move the paragraph into the one above and edit it so it would fit. This was one of the big global revisions I did in this paper because I realized that it wasn’t needed there so I was able to move it. These revisions show that I am still making mistakes in my papers, because I am not a perfect writer. However, it shows that I am able to take my rough draft with the corrections, and make the final draft better by adding in what needs to be added and fixing what needs to be fixed. You can see the corrections that I made from my rough draft to my final draft because I highlighted the changes in my final draft. Overall, I feel like the way I approach writing now has improved tremendously. Now that I have these good writing skills, I feel that when I am writing a paper in the future, I will be able to write very well. I feel as though I now have good skills in recognizing my ability to fix grammar as well as fixing my global and local revisions.
