During this semester, I have improved on my skills to revise my work on a global and local level. In high school, I hardly ever wrote more than one draft for a paper. Usually, I would type my essay, read it over, and hand it in. If I did need to do a second draft, it would involve things like fixing spelling and punctuation. This class has helped me learn how to revise on a global level. This skill took time to develop. My ability in this area has changed for the better from our first writing assignment to our last. For the first writing assignment on grades, my revisions did not contain any global revision. The only changes that I made between my drafts were a limited number of local revisions. I made no changes to the structure of my essay, just spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. In my significant writing project, I showed great improvement in global revision. I made changes to the structure of my essay like adding a description after a quote that wasn’t there before, adding a new piece of evidence that I found after diving deeper into sources about my topic, and restructured my thesis statement. I also showed a small improvement in local revision as well. In my first essay, I did do local revision but failed to catch every mistake. On the final draft of my significant writing project, I made all of the local corrections that needed to be made. I have made significant progress in my ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).
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