Learning Outcome I

When it came to revising earlier in the year, I think that I revised less wording and more the overall paragraphs that I had first made. When it came to later in the year, I found myself making sure that my sentences made sense because while they made sense to me, they were unclear to others and I had to make sure that the other readers could really understand what I was trying to get at. Before I would scrap the almost entire paragraph because if I thought that something was wrong or if one part did not make sense, I started over with a completely new slate so that instead of going back sentence by sentence and fixing one and then the next, I could make sure that the entire paragraph made sense. I sort of scrapped this style over the year because while to me I thought that the whole new paragraph made sense because I did what the revisions said, however since it was a completely new paragraph, I think that I developed a habit of just getting my ideas down on the paper for the new paragraph so that I would be done and I made myself believe that it was better that way. And because of that the paragraphs themselves stopped making sense so I stopped making new paragraphs and decided to try the sentence by sentence editing again. I think that overall this was better because I could then take that already edited but not completely new paragraph and go back through to look at the smaller things after instead of convincing myself that it was fine the way it was just because I did what the revision suggested to do.