Morgan Valeri

Ms. Michko

AP Language & Composition

Explanation on Revision Process

After revising my precis, I worked mostly focused on changing up the main rhetorical

devices used in the article, but I also made sure to fix any spelling or grammatical errors. As

well, I definitely needed to work on my third sentence mostly and fix my structure of it. Writing

the precis, I feel like I needed to understand the context of the speech a bit more. Reading it

again, I was now able to depict what the speaker was truly saying and how this had a major

effect. In addition to this, I tweaked some of my word choice. For example, instead of talking

about his personal “experience”, I was able to switch this to “anecdotes”. As this was being

graded, one of the comments for myself to improve upon was to be more specific when

explaining. As a result of this, I made sure to add further detail into the text whether this meant

my word choice, or even just going into a little bit more depth on what I was trying to point out

on his rhetorical choices. With this particular precis, I feel as though I struggle the most with

coming up with effective rhetorical strategies, and even sometimes understanding the main

concepts of a certain speech or article. But with this, I made sure to re-read it and was now able

to process even more takeaways which had been very beneficial to my learning. This being said,

even though precis are short for the most part, there is always room for improvement whether

this means going into further detail on a certain point, or even just fixing some small

grammatical errors within the writing. But after revising this, I have now most definitely

understood the main concept of James Baldwin’s article and how effective it has been to our

nation as a whole.
Morgan Valeri

Ms. Michko

AP Language & Composition