Revision Strategies

I define Revision is at examining, editing, and re-conceiving of text for ideas and content.

There are two types of revisions, Global and Local.

Global revision asks us to revise for theme, or the text as a whole.

Local Revision asks us to revise for grammar, mechanics, and word choices.

There are four (4) areas of a text that we can revise:

• Theme—the theme, argument, or idea of a text.
• Paragraph—we can revise individual and multiple paragraphs
• Sentence—we can revise individual and multiple sentences
• Word—we can revise individual or multiple words

Within these four areas of a text, there are four (4) ways we can revise:

• Addition—we can add meaningful information
• Deletion—we can delete irrelevant information
• Substitution—we can substitute words, as long as we don’t substitute with Jargon
• Rearrangement—we can rearrange paragraphs, sentences, words, and ideas