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Mastering the Writing Revision Process for Effective Communication

Learn how to teach students the stages of revision—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions—to enhance their writing skills. Empower students with the ability to express ideas coherently and forcefully through the editing and revising process.

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Mastering the Writing Revision Process for Effective Communication

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  1. The Revision Process

  2. Common view of the writing process: • Brainstorm • Draft • Revise • Edit

  3. But if writing is, as John Trimble says, and many writers agree 90% revision…

  4. The Writing Process = The Revision Process

  5. Revision is usually undefined

  6. The result? Students EDIT: CORRECT grammar and sentence structure

  7. REVISION PROCESS Revision happens in stages: • Ideas • Organization • Voice • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Conventions

  8. How to teach this process? OPTION 1: First, show students how revision can be broken down into stages (Elaboration and Craft). OPTION 2: Show students how to break down process into stages corresponding to the rubric/checklist.

  9. OPTION 2: Begin with Focused Peer Revision • Teach mini-lessons on each of the rubric items (big to small). • Have peers analyze each others’ papers through these lenses. • Eventually students learn to more objectively view their own papers through these same lenses.

  10. FINAL OBJECTIVE? Students are empowered with skills to express their own ideas coherently and forcefully.

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