Learning Objectives
- Researchers will understand how to revising can dramatically improve their research paper
- Researchers will know how to make global revisions, including looking at their argument, main ideas, and organziation
- Researchers will learn ways to improve transitions, paragraphs, and sentences
- Researchers will understand the importance of formatting their paper according to an assigned citation style
Why Revise?
- Revision is a central part of the research and writing process
- Introduces global revision and local revision
- Beginning level
- 0m 48s
The Hard Work of Global Revision
- Explains global revision
- Beginning and intermediate level, if not previously introduced
- 0m 57s
Basic Ideas
- Focus during first revision: ideas
- Reviewing thesis, subclaims, and evidence
- Beginning level
- 1m 38s
Organization
- Focus during second revision: organization of the paper
- Beginning level
- 0m 59s
Cutting
- The importance of cutting out extraneous information
- Beginning level
- 0m 52s
The Benefits of Local Revision
- Improving the "small stuff" to increase the clarity and persuasiveness of your argument
- Beginning level
- 1m 3s
Paragraphs
- How to effectively transition between two paragraphs
- How to analyze a paragraph for effectiveness
- Beginning level
- 1m 0s
Sentences
- Correcting sentence structure
- How to use an active voice
- Beginning level
- 1m 59s
Words and Phrases
- How to use metadiscourse and avoiding empty words
- Spotting commonly misused words
- Beginning level
- 1m 16s
Formatting
- Correctly formatting your paper
- Beginning level
- 0m 49s
When Are You Done?
- You are never done
- Beginning level
- 0m 34s
Checklist
- Start with your paper's ideas, making sure your thesis statement matches your subclaims and that you have sufficient evidence to prove your main claim.
- Check your paper's organization to make sure it includes the six essential elements ad that they are ordered in a way that makes sense.
- Look at your paragraphs to make sure transitions between them are smooth and each is focused on one main claim that connects to a subclaim.
- Revise sentences that are unnecessarily long or contain passive constructions.
- Check to make sure you're precisely using metadiscourses and avoiding empty phrases and words.
- Correct any commonly confused words and misspellings.
- Properly format your paper according to the assigned citation style.
Terms
- Global Revision
- Local Revision
- Passive Voice
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