In this course, the revision and editing process was vital to my success. In the case of my Researched Writing piece, my first draft was not my best work. I'd spent a lot of time researching and finding valuable sources, from which to construct my argument. This left me very little time for outlining and writing, and the resulting work was poorly organized and incomplete.
My second draft was much more complete. Additionally, the peer editing process, where I exchanged papers with a classmate, helped me organize my thoughts in a more logical order. With the second round of peer editing, we were instructed to look at the strength of our classmate's argument. Perhaps a lingering effect of all the technical writing I do, my first two drafts were simply a presentation of the research I'd done. For my final draft, I looked at how I was presenting the facts and tried to analyze and show how they supported my thesis. I believe this was the key to a strong argument and the success of this assignment.
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