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Language and Writer’s Craft: revising and editing
my Notes
1. Summarize the purpose and process of working in a successful writing group.
The Revision Process
Very few people are able to write a perfect first draft, so revising is a typical part of the writing process—even for famous writers. In an interview done for The Paris Review in 1956, the interviewer asked Ernest Hemingway about his writing.
Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do?
Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied.
Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you?
Hemingway: Getting the words right.
(From Ernest Hemingway, “The Art of Fiction,” The Paris Review Interview, 1956)
2. Writing groups can help you revise and get your words right. In the last two activities, you started a narrative about a hero. As you think about revising your draft, what are some guiding questions you might ask? You might use the Embedded Assessment 1 Scoring Guide to prompt your questions to focus on ideas, organization, and your use of language.
Introducing the Strategy: Self-Editing, Peer-Editing
Editing your writing is a part of the writing process (self-editing). This strategy can be used with a partner (peer-editing) to examine a text closely to identify areas that may need to be corrected for language, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, or spelling.
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