Revision Techniques

There are many different revision techniques. What technique you use depends on the genre or type of writing, its audience, and its purpose. For example, poets and short story writers will use different techniques to revise than journalists or nonfiction essay writers. Persuasive writers will revise by focusing more clearly on their audience, while expository writers might revise by focusing more on the information they are trying to convey. As these examples illustrate, revision is big topic. For this lesson, I will focus on techniques to help you revise persuasive and expository essays that you write in school, but the techniques I present can be adapted to other forms of writing as well. This lesson and its enhancements will go over the following revision techniques:

    How to form writing (peer editing) groups to get feedback on your writing (see Basics)

    How to revise for sequence (Journal )

    How to revise for word choice (see Challenge)

    How to revise your paragraphs (Real Life)

    How to revise your sentences (Exercise)