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3. In addition to asking questions, having a writer’s checklist can help you revise. Next you will work with members of your writing group to create, on separate paper, a writer’s checklist for your Hero’s Journey narrative. This checklist should reflect your group’s ideas about the following:
• Ideas: Think of the purpose of the writing, the topic, and the details.
• Structure: Think of the writing mode and purpose, as well as organization of
the writing.
• Use of language: Think about figurative language, descriptive details, transitions, diction, etc.
You may want to check the Scoring Guide for Embedded Assessment 1 for further ideas.
4. After completing your writer’s checklist, your writing group will read and discuss each member’s draft of the Hero’s Journey narrative. Group members should trade roles of Reader, Listener, and Writer as they proceed through each draft, following the information in the chart on the previous pages.
Using Resources and References to Revise
How does a writer improve a text through revision? Deep revision takes time and effort. Skilled writers do the following:
• Add ideas and language to enhance effect.
• Delete irrelevant, unclear, and repetitive ideas and language to improve
pacing and effect.
• Rearrange ideas to improve sequence.
• Substitute ideas and language for effect.
5. Use the writer’s checklist you created, the feedback from your peers, and the revision strategies above to guide your revision. Share one of your revisions with the class by explaining specifically what you revised and how it improved your writing.
Editing a Draft
6. New writers sometimes confuse revision with editing or proofreading. Both are extremely important in creating a polished piece of writing, but they are different and separate processes.
• Revision focuses on ideas, organization, and language and involves adding, deleting, rearranging, and substituting words, sentences, and entire paragraphs.
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