After reading, “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott I feel a lot more comfortable and confident in the revision process. I have never been a decent writer, I have always struggled, especially when it came to the revision process. I would constantly read through my rough draft and try to find places to make revisions, but I would be so blind I could no find anything. Anne Lamott’s description of her first draft is parallel to how I view mine. I was surprised at how she described it since I was like any other person who thought authors just were naturally gifted at writing and revising.

Revision Strategy:

My plan for revision will begin with redefining my thesis. In my group, my thesis was not as clear and concise as I originally believed it to be. I want to go back and reword it to make it a much stronger thesis that is much more easily defined. In addition, I am going to reread each of my body paragraphs in order to remove large amounts of summary with I accidentally added in thinking it was detail instead. After I remove the large chunks of summary I will then have to go back and add details and explanations of the quotes and how they support and connect to my thesis. I also need to go back and fix grammatical errors such as punctuation. One punctuation I know I need to fix is the use of commas when I use quotes. It has been an error I have always made and I know I need to find the correct place for all of them and go back and fix it. Besides that, I need to go back and pick some stronger words to use to give it more of a scholarly tone and voice.