First off, I would like to say that I enjoyed the conversational tone of Gilmore's text it was very easy to relate and understand to the point that I didn't really feel like I was reading a required text. I can completely understand what Gilmore means when he says that revision is underrated. It takes a lot of time to develop a good essay. When speaking for myself, I know that it takes me a long time to even begin a paper let alone revise to the point where I am proud I wrote. Not many of my papers that I have ever turned in are the same as when I first began.
What I agreed with the most, was his idea that it takes more than just one person to revise one paper or essay. That is true on so many levels. I know that some of my best writing came from me allowing the input of more than one person. I learned last year that when you let different people with different opinions and levels of knowledge take at a look at your paper you come back with more and more good ideas and evidence for your topic. But, I think that the ability to revise is mostly the students responsibilty. It is the teachers job to prepare and guide the students in the right directions and sometimes teachers use rubrics way to much and takes away the students ability to come up and revise their own Ideas.
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