The Makers Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts
You have 23 hrs from now to deliver the draft (2 pages), then the all essay is due on sunday. please send me the first draft before 12pm tommorrow.additionaly,please refer to the book the little,brown reader.
Reflections on Writing Paper
For your second paper in Eng101, read the following essays in The Little Brown Reader:
-Discovering the Power of my Words (579)
-The Maker\'s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts (583)
-The Case For Short Words (587)
-Shitty First Drafts (599)
-Coming To An Awareness of Language (603)
Read all of the essays and then pick one you would prefer to write about. Your assignment has a body with four parts: First, summarize that essay, then explain the idea(s) you found most interesting or useful. Next, discuss how this essay relates to your own writing experience. Finally, discuss how the essay relates to not only that writing experience previously, but your current experience in eng101.
This essay must be organized with an introductory paragraph that includes a thesis statement and plan of development, the main body of the essay that develops the above stated assignment, and a concluding paragraph. Your essay must be 1,000 words (no more than 1,250 words) and developed with specific ideas. Please use MLA citation format (if you have questions ask me).
Make sure your paper is titled, page numbers are inserted in the top right corner (lastname_pagenumber), and double spaced. Normal formatting rules apply.
all above of this writing is my teacher instructions.after that, i want you to send me first draft of this essay(2pages), which is due tommorrow before 12pm.but the all essay is due on sunday. please send me the first draft before 12pm tommorrow.additionaly,please refer to the book the little,brown reader.
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The Maker’s Eye – Revising Your Own Manuscript, by Donald Murray
Thesis
Effective procedures need to be applied in order to draft any form of writing. This is why writing is considered a somehow technical form of activity. While in the process of drafting, many writers ought to look at the coherence and unity and the emphasis to write a well-shaped piece of article. Murray, points out that writers need to have a progression of drafts produced before they can eventually settle for the final piece of writing they intend to work on. Each piece of draft can always be rearranged and edited during the process of writing so as to be clearer and after all this is not the final work. While at it the writers should always be ready to face negative feedback and welcome positive criticism of the work they have developed. However, at the same time, the writers should always be doubtful of all forms of criticism and praise of work as this may not always be constructive. The author has also stressed the importance of rewriting by involving, scanning drafts, modification of problems that aren’t appropriate or relevant to the thesis statement. In addition the writers must keep in mind that they ought to be conscious of interest of the writers and be certain of their reader’s readiness nad willingness to accurately acquire the information which you as an author is intending to convey.
Writers must seek to understand the expectation of the readers in other words questions (Murray, p.84). There are other characteristics of a good piece of writing and they include: a) Compact structure, including logical arguments, narrative and motivation, b) Information-oriented, c) balanced and proportionate, d) concise expression of content (Murray, p. 85). Finally, the author mentions that writers need to give a correct definition of words. In this essay, there are three main ideas that are being advanced and they are: criticism, organization and audience, and these are the ideas that are recommended to writers to inform them on the importance of the revision of their work and treat it with the seriousness it deserves during the process of revision.
Donald Murray intends to inform the readers of what he hopes can be considered to be the hallmarks of good writing. He hopes that writers can improve their writing from one level to another. He is also keen on informing the reader on the different ways that different writers revise their work by showing us how different workers employ different techniques and strategies for revising their manuscripts. We can learn that there are various steps that are taken and can be taken in order to effectively revise and edit a paper or article. It takes considerable efforts to go through all the steps in order to come out with a fairly good piece of writing. There are about fifteen distinct steps to be followed in this outlined writing and after g...