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Steps for Revising Your Paper:

Using the opportunity to focus on your paper and take breaks from
writing when you have plenty of time to rewrite. You can be able to
return to your draft with a fresh perspective if you can forget about it for
a day or two. Put your writing aside at least twice during the revising
process—once during the first part, when you are reorganizing your
work, and once during the second part, when you are revising your
work. when you are polishing and paying attention to details.

Use the following questions to evaluate your drafts. You can use your
responses to revise your papers by reorganizing them to make your best
points stand out, by adding needed information, by eliminating irrelevant
information, and by clarifying sections or sentences.

 Find your main point:

What exactly are you attempting to convey in the paper? To put it another way, try to summarize your
study, or key argument, as well as the proof you're using to back it up. Consider that this piece of paper
belongs to someone else. Is there a simple thesis in the paper? Do you know what the subject of the
paper will be?

 Identify your readers and your purpose:

What exactly are you attempting to accomplish in the paper? In other words, are you attempting to
refute the reading, interpret it, assess it, apply it to a different scenario, or achieve a different objective
by doing so?

 Evaluate your evidence:

Does the body of your paper support your thesis? Do you offer enough
evidence to support your claim? If you are using quotations from the text
as evidence, did you cite them properly?
  Save only the good pieces:

Do all of the ideas relate back to the thesis? Is there anything that doesn't
seem to fit? If so, you either need to change your thesis to reflect the
idea or cut the idea.

 Tighten and clean up your language:

Is there a logical link between any of the ideas in the paper? Are there any thoughts or sentences that
are vague or confusing? Listen for uncomfortable pauses and vague thoughts when you read the article
aloud. Remove unnecessary phrases, ambiguity, and misplaced words.

For more information on this mission, see the Purdue OWL's vidcast on cutting during the revision
process.

 Eliminate mistakes in grammar and usage:

Do you see any problems with grammar, punctuation, or spelling? If you
think something is wrong, you should make a note of it, even if you
don't know how to fix it. You can always talk to a Writing Lab tutor
about how to correct errors