Using Post-Writing Revision, the general process of going back
through your whole draft, from start to end, and
Strategies
“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is
necessary, and every cut hurts, but something
new always grows”
-Kelly Barnhill
 Post-writing is both an external and
internal: it helps us discover new
meanings in our writing, ,and improve on
communicating our ideas more clearly
through reorganizing, rewording and
proofreading our work.
 Post-writing strategies is applicable to all
writing output.
 Post-writing strategies give us the chance to
know our strengths and weakness.
INTRODUCTION
Now, you have arrived at the final stage of the
writing process: post writing. This part entails
looking over your draft critically, paying attention
to content, organization, and mechanics by
using techniques like revising , editing, and
proofreading. While revising, editing, and
proofreading are among the last things that you
do when you finish writing a paper, they are not
always the easiest. In fact, many students may
take this part for granted– they think that once
they have finished researching and writing their
papers, their work is complete.
That is far from rewording, and reorganizing
your essays happens. Instead of being daunted
by the task, you should take this as an
opportunity to improve your essay—after all, the
post writing stage is an opportunity for you to
discover new ideas and better ways of
communicating those insights. This lesson will
introduce you to the techniques that you can use
for effective revision.
improving on or clarifying your writing subjects
meaning. This can include adding in taking
out, moving around, & publishing certain
parts of your draft to make it much more
understandable and easier for reading.
Revision focuses on the bigger picture of your
draft so you can resolve any significant issues
on content that may have otherwise been
hidden while you were writing.
Editing,sometimes known as proofreading,
is the more meticulous process of clarifying
meaning by revising each word and line
of your draft. This includes your grammatical
principles such as subject-verb agreement, verb
tense, noun and pronoun usage, prepositions,
sentence transitions, and verb tense; and
typographical matters such as punctuations,
spelling and capitalizations. Note that while
revision focuses on the bigger picture of your
draft while editing focuses on its finer details.
STEPS IN REVISING YOUR DRAFT
 Revision can be simplified in two steps.
The 1st step is, take a bird’s eye view
of your draft, to reread it as a whole.
2nd step is reviewing your draft
portion by portion and adding in, filtering
and re-organizing content according to
form and flow.
 There are also factors in writing may also
need to be considered. Writers look at the
form they have used for their drafts, for
example. If your purpose for writing is to
describe a person or a place, then you
should be working on a descriptive
essay. If you are shedding light on a
current event, then you should be
working on an expository essay.
 Lastly, say you suddenly wanted to write
about the forest surrounding each hill
because you thought they added more
 beauty. Do not be afraid to use the
inspiration; plunge right in and write
about it! Just make sure that your new
content ties in neatly and smoothly with
the rest of your draft.
Essay Revision Checklist
 Do I have a big idea I want to express, an
important message to send out? Do I
have an audience who will listen to me?
Who is my audience?
 What is my purpose for writing? Have I
achieved it?
 What language and tone do I take in my
writing? What point of view and voice?
Are all these appropriate to my purpose
for writing, and the audience I am
speaking to?
 Do I have enough credibility to speak on
my chosen subject? Can I back up all of
my discussions on the subject with
confidence and sufficient knowledge?
 Does my draft make a central point?
Have I defined the limits of my draft well,
so that only essential information is
included? Is the context of my draft
established?
 What form of writing does my draft take?
Is it the best value for my ideas to be
expressed?
 Does the beginning of my draft draw the
reader in? does it introduce my subject to
the reader well?
 Do my succeeding points support my
beginning statements? Does each idea
connect to the next one? Do all the
sections of my draft move my
discussions on the subject forward,
toward the conclusion?
 Does the conclusion make the reader
think? Does it answer all the reader’s
questions on my subject?
 Is the pace of my draft just right? Is it slow
enough so the reader is not left behind by
my discussions? Is it fast enough so the
reader’s interest still stays with me?
 Does the draft read smoothly and
coherently overall?
 What are the strengths of my draft? How
can I make these stand out more?
 What are the weaknesses of my draft?
How can I improve on these?
Steps in Editing your Draft
 Once you have revised all the content of
your draft to your liking, you can now
proceed to the final stage of the writing
process: Editing. Remember that the
editing is revising your draft line by line,
word per word.
 According to proper grammar, spelling,
capitalization, and punctuation. Editing
must be viewed as your final
preparations and changes on your
draft before it faces your readers.
 As in revising, you will also be required
multiple re-readings of your draft in
editing, with each re-reading having a
different editing focus from the last ,so
you can spot errors more accurately. For
example, take a first re-reading to check
only for subject-verb agreement and
correct pronoun usage. Your second re-
reading will have you focus next on
sentence fragments and run-on
sentences. Your third re-reading will
focus on spelling, your forth re-reading
on punctuations, and so o and so forth.
You may need to make as many re-
readings as you can to minimize the risk
of error in your draft. This may take some
time on your part, but rest assured there
is nothing more satisfying than turning in
a final draft in a final draft that reads
effortlessly.