Chapter 3 focuses on revising your paper. It says to start revising a paper you should do the big revisions before revising each individual sentence. Reread your paper to make sure that every paragraph makes sense and fits together. It can be hard to catch things that need to be fixed in the paper when you read it in your head, so chapter 3 suggests that you read it out loud to yourself. In making big revisions you want to make sure that everything flows smoothly and makes sense. You also want to make sure that your paper accomplishes its purpose and supports the thesis. After you have completed the global revisions, you can then turn your attention to editing the sentences. This is when you focus on the effectiveness of your sentences and check for grammatical errors. After all of the revisions are done you then must proofread your essay. Proofreading means that you are slowly and methodically reading through your entire paper checking for any mistakes that you had possibly missed during the revisions.
I have never been very good with revising, editing, and proofreading my essays. I have a tendency to just write my paper and turn it in. I do not usually check for errors. I really need to work on this. I am going to start doing the revision process on my papers. I am going to try my best to revise, edit, and proofread my papers. I think that I am also going to have a friend of mine that is an English major read my essays and give me feedback on them before I turn them in. Sometimes it is hard to find mistakes in your own work, so having some one else read it.
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