In “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” by Nancy Sommers, she discusses how revision is something almost all writing processes leave out even though it is crucial to the writing process. Sommers says “Isolating revision and then disregarding it plays havoc with the experiences composition teachers have of the actual writing and rewriting of experience writers.” in the second page of “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers”. Which I think is true. From my own experience over my educational career, I’ve learned how important revision truly is. Without revision, I doubt many of my assignments that I’ve done over the years would have ended up being as good as they could have been.
But, contrary to what the adult writers that Sommers mentioned in the opening page of “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experience Adult Writers” had thought, revision is not an afterthought during the writing process simply because during a speech revisions are afterthoughts. Revision was defined as several different things by student writers and experienced adult writers alike. Student writers had said it was the process of rewriting, redoing, or omitting things from works. Experienced writers had said that it was the process of revising as the finding the form or shape of their argument. Both of which, based on my own experiences as I’ve developed my writing over the years, are true, showing that revision can be defined as several different things depending on who you ask. This proves that revision is a necessary part of the writing process that is underutilized by most because they don’t see its importance.
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