WRIT101 Brownson

Below please find guidelines for revising the essays that I identify as being eligible for revision.

Students need to take the revision process seriously, reviewing, editing, and revising ALL ELEMENTS of the original essay and avoiding a waste of time and effort. "To revise" means "to read over carefully and correct and improve where necessary." It also means to re-envision, re-conceive, re-formulate. Revision entails a great deal of re-writing. Revision is an activity in which all must writers must fully and intellectually engage, an activity that means more than just correcting spelling and punctuation errors and the like.

1. Students who earned a "C" or below may revise the eligible essays.

2. Students who choose to revise must meet with me to discuss their plans for revision.

3. All revision is voluntary.

4. The revised grade(s) will be averaged with the original grade to achieve a final grade on the assignment.

5. The grades on revisions will not improve if the new version contains largely or only editing corrections, i.e., corrections of mechanics and grammar.

6. The original graded essay must be submitted with the revised version.

7. Late revisions will not be accepted.

8. Because revision is very time consuming, and because you will working on your revision at the same time that you are working on your next required assignment, you should choose carefully how to expend your energy and time. Ask yourself, what are your goals in writing this revision?