Blog #4

• Turning point in narratives 
• most things that stick with people
• key ideas in narratives 
• Academic writing 
• Collaborative 
• peer editing 
• Revising, making changes to a paper to make it better than it was before 
• Editing is different because  when you edit you it involves minor changes 
• Composition pyramid 
• top {Situation, Issue, Thesis, Audience}
• Middle {Organization, Effective use of sources to the thesis} 
• Bottom {Style and Grammar} 
• Ask questions to see if you can get full understanding of what writer was trying to describe. 
• When reading peers writing focus on top of the pyramid
• Different stages of writing 
• different drafts 

Writing is more than just words on a paper saying something about irrelevant subjects. But in order for there to be a good essay learning the process of writing is very important. For example,"Writing is a process, and revising is an integral part of that process. Your best writing will happen in the context of real readers' responding to your drafts."(274). Its always a good idea to have a peer or teacher to help you revise your work so it could have a better and more smooth rhythm to it. Also having a fresh eye look at your work could help with grammatical errors that we oversee. 

If you are the peer that is helping peer edit someone's writing it would really help the writer if you ask questions about their writings. In the reading it says, "You should play the role of deferring reader, putting off certain comments. You don't want to overwhelm the writer with problems no matter how many questions the essay rises."(280). The deferring reader just reads and adds comments of what they thought about your writing that way the writer is not bombarded with suggestion that will completely change what they were trying to say. Sometimes when a reader is correcting a writers work they fix things that did not need fixing and the writers initial thought of what they were really trying to say basically gets buried because of the new suggestions. 

 As you go on writing your drafts should improve and as they improve to edit them it'll be in certain stages. At your final draft it should just be based on grammar and the basic of wording that should be fixed."Your final draft should require editing, not revising. At this stage, readers should focus on errors in style and grammar in the text, not on the substance of your work."(288). You should no longer be tinkering with your actual writing just fixing your grammatical errors like punctuations, specific wording and word tense. 

QUESTIONS: 

What are ways an editor can suggested things without completely changing the writing? 

What is the most important part of editing someone's essay?

Is it ok to not take advice from your editor?