Revising an essay is not just proofreading it, although this is part of the revision process. Your first draft is only the start of the real work. It often takes more effort and time to revise ...

Perhaps the only belief that today’s writers share is that to produce good writing, you have to revise. This principle appears everywhere—in classrooms, in newsrooms, in writing guides ...

Some of the resistance and stress that faculty members feel around revising reflects how they were taught to write as undergraduates with a final paper that received a grade “as is.” While writing ...

Before you begin writing the actual essay, prewriting and getting prepared ... Once you have a solid draft, it’s time to make sure everything is right—it’s time to revise. Now it’s time to revise.

My former writing teacher, the essayist and cartoonist Timothy Kreider, explained revision to me: “One of my favorite phrases is l’esprit d’escalier, ‘the spirit of the staircase ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done ...