The Process of Revision

My experiences with the process of revision has greatly impacted the way I view my own writing and style. I have always viewed revision as a way of changing or adding something to what I had originally written. The difference between editing and revising, to me, was that editing was fixing grammar mistakes and revising was actually adding new words or sentences or even paragraphs and restructuring the paragraphs, if needed. Since taking English 101, I have developed and enhanced my revising skills and techniques. I now revise my essays thoroughly and I understand the importance of revision in developing a concise and coherent paper. I now revise a paper many times and send it to many different people who I trust in which I can get reasonable and useful feedback from to further enhance the quality of my paper. I used to think my writing was the best it could possibly be after revising my paper by just myself and not having it peer reviewed. However, I now view my writing as constantly up for improvement and I recognize the important peer reviewing has in developing a solid paper. I also view my style differently after it has been peer reviewed because I have more opinions on the way I write instead of my own opinion which, of course, rarely sees faults in a particular style of writing in which I wrote myself.