Page 174 At a Glance

When revising my rough draft, I used some of the strategies that were given on page 174. Most of the strategies that I tried helped and made my final draft much better. I tried reading my rough draft aloud, but it didn't really help because i didn't find many mistakes this way. One thing that did work was putting my essay for a while then going back over it at a later time. I finished writing my rough draft, then instead of going over it when i was finished, I looked at it the next day and found that I could have gone a different way with some paragraphs. I then revised these paragraphs when it came time to write my final draft. We then did a peer review in class which helped out a lot. It allowed me to see what revisions I could make to my essay. Most of these revisions I would not have come up with by myself. I tried one more strategy, but it didn't help out at all. I tried revising my paragraphs out of order, but it was just messing up the flow of the whole essay. I tried several of these strategies on page 174, some of these proved to be beneficial, while some did not.