Revising and polishing your writing/ENGA104/The revision process/E-activity-start

Challenge summary

Summary:	Applying the revision process.
	1 - 2 hours
	Linked to assessment

Being able to revise your writing.

Start here

Stimulus resources

1. Take home message from the Youtube video.
2. Lessons learned about reviewing during the microblog.
3. Knowledge acquired through your reading of A strategy for analyzing and revising a first draft section from the About Writing: A Guide course available from Open Oregon Educational Resources, and Section 8.1 from the Handbook for writers (2012).

Purpose

Now we'll see if you can apply the revision process to your own writing. The purpose of this learning challenge is to:

• Diagnose problems with your own writing.
• Apply the revision process to your work.
• Help you learn to recognise when your work can be improved to make it clearer and more effective.