Revising

Revision is the key to successful writing. At this stage of the writing process, you look more deeply into your ideas, consider the implications of the evidence or data you have collected, and you locate gaps in information or logic that need to be filled so that your readers can understand your points more fully. When you revise, you revise ideas, you revise style, and you revise for your readers.
 

Revising Ideas and Content

 
• Questions for Revision

Source: University of Southern California
 
• Function Outline Worksheet

Source: University of Southern California
 
• Revising the Draft

Source: Harvard University
 
• Revising

Source: University of Victoria
 
• Expanding Ideas in Personal Essays

 
• Personal and Global Significance

Revising for Your Readers

 
• Writing Techniques Handbook: Audience: Some General Advice

Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Revising for Style

 
• Analyzing Your Own Style

 
• Revising Modifiers

 
• Avoiding the Naked This

Paragraphs

 
• Paragraphs (Section 5)

Source: MIT, Mayfield Handbook
 
• Writing Techniques Handbook: Body Paragraphs

Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
• Paragraph Unity (Section 1.10)

Source: MIT, Mayfield Handbook

Topic Sentences

 
• Topic Sentences: Fact Sheet and Exercises

 
• Topic Sentences, Paragraphs, and Summary: Building Toward Analysis

Source: Harvard University
 
• Topic Sentences (Section 5.1.1)

Source: MIT, Mayfield Handbook

Verbs

 
• Verb Tense Shifts

 
• Verb Tense Use When Discussing Literature

Usage Glossary

 
• Usage Glossary (Section 14)

Source: MIT, Mayfield Handbook

Wordiness

 
• Wordiness (Section 6.2)

Source: MIT, Mayfield Handbook

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