Monday, September 13, 2010

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Summary:
Nancy Sommer's article of "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" explained the ways and strategies of both writers. Sommer's theory explains how new and recent writing formats have been swaying away from revising and editing.
Sommers seemed to notice that the majority of the students would not “use the terms revision or rewriting.” The students seemed to use words such as “Scratching out and cutting out” or “Marking Out” when they referred to revising a paper. It seemed that students thought that by either changing a word and/or phrase would make their paper better or just save them time. While the more experienced writers sometimes crossed out an entire page as if they thought something wasn't right or it would ruin the entire article.
Question:
How do student writers compare or differ from experienced writers?
Response:
The experienced writers seem to be a lot much more mature of their writing when it goes down to revising. They know that if one misused word goes wrong it'll lead to the whole sentence being wrong and that sentence can probably ruin the entire page. Experienced writers write with more caution because they've been in the situation before, in which they mess up and forget to revise. While the least experienced writers most commonly know as students always seem to try to fix mistakes with better words. In my terms it's like if they try to put bubble gum on a flat tire while the experienced writers replace it with the entire spare tire.

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