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Stephanie Cecilia Flores

RWS 1301
Professor Kinley
November 10, 2014
Response 14

In Nancy Sommers article, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and

Experienced Adult Writers, she discusses the difference between an experienced writer
and a student writer. Sommer was making several studies for over three years in order
to find the difference between these two types of writers. She did a research with 20
freshmen and 20 adult writers from Boston and Oklahoma City. A writer from both
groups had to write three essays and revise the essays. After the research, Sommer
interviewed the person who wrote the essays. She discovered that inexperience writers
(student writers) revise their work constantly and experience writers (adult writers)
have a reader in mind. According to Sommer, people should revise their work after the
first or second draft. After reading the article I realize that this research is very true.
Students feel the urge to check their essays constantly before turning them in. For
example, in my RWS 1301 Im writing a research paper and every time I have to turn in
part of my research paper I visit the Writing Center because I want my paper to be
exceptional. Theres a reason of why they are called experienced writers, they have
enough experience to write a good book, essay, journal, article, etc. According to
Sommer, she mentioned that writing needs to be more like a speech.