Chapter 3

          In this chapter it talks about global revisions. Instead just fixing sentences you should start out with an entire aspect of the story. You can ask yourself if you have a purpse and audience, the main focus of your paper, your organization and paragraphing, the content, and a point of view. The best way to edit your essay this way would be to set it aside for a day or two and read it as an audience point of view and see what answers you come up with. Revising single sentences, you should proofread always. It's a slow way to catch andy typos or mistakes in your essay or story. Some people do it by just looking at a computor screen and others actually print out a copy of it and do it all there. You should focus on effectiveness when your editing your sentences. Proofreading is the most important part of a final draft. You should alwasy make time for it, thought it may be hard to see any mistakes from your point of view you can read it out loud and catch any that way, you can proofread our sentences in reverse order, which forces you to think about surface features instead and give you a more clear understanding on what exactly the sentence is saying. Proofreading shows that you care about your writing and respect your audience.
         I learned a quite a bit from reading this chapter that I didn't have any idea about. For example, the reading your sentences backwards, that sounds like a good idea, it can really help you understand more about what it is your trying to write and get the main idea of the story. I usually don't proofread, I'm not sure why, but since I now know its one of the most important things, which I should of probably already known, I'm just lazy. I'll start doing that more, mistakes and typos can be annoying in a paper and no reader really wants to read typos and things like that. Also, I've never heard of global revision before. It sounds like a really neat thing to be able to know and do. So I wil try that on my next paper, instead of just reading it I can ask myeslf whats my main idea in the story and would an audiece have a decent point of view on what I'm trying to write. Make sure its organized well and the content isn't all messed up, its proofread. I look forward to using these new techniques in my next piece of writing.