Revising

1. When you revise, what do you actually do? What kinds of changes do you make? (Do you revise you writing, or is revision an afterthought?

Personally, I feel like I cannot truly revise my writing right after I write the paper, and seeing as how I finish most of my paper hours before it's due, I hardly revise them. I feel like I can't see anything wrong after I just write it unless it's a grammar mistake. In the writing, it's hard for me to see my own mistakes until I let it sink in and not look at the piece for a few days. So I usually don't revise and I trust my first draft, and it hasn't really done me wrong thus far so I never really worry about revising my paper.

2. What figuration can you apply to your revision practices? What metaphor best represents your approach to revision?

The metaphor that best represents my approach to revision is a football coach thinking that his gameplan for the big game was perfect, but after they end up losing the game, they see what they did wrong. It's hard for me to see anything wrong because, since I just wrote the paper, I can't bring myself to read it again and correct it because I feel like my hours of hard work alone deserve an A, so I see my paper as being all good. I see the small mistakes quickly, as a coach would when he sees his cornerback blow coverage on the opponent's top wide receiver, but it'll take me a little while to see what's really wrong with the paper.