The revision process can be a difficult process, although it is an important part to refine your paper. In the beginning of this course I was only aware local edits, or edits at the grammar or sentence level. But soon Global edits were introduced to me. Global edits are different from local edits because they deal the changing of concepts or ideas. Both of these types of editing are important but global edits definitely carry more weight. In this course we were actively writing our papers and going back to fix errors in our writing, we also would peer review. Peer review can help both parties in letting them know more about both style of edits. In my significant writing project an example of a global edit would be were I added “Julie Beck a senior editor at the Atlantic, uses her essay”. This was added because in my rough draft I lacked the concept of giving your sources and their authors and introduction before using their evidence for their writing. An example of a local edit was “An article from Galen Strawson … false that everyone stories themselves, and false that it’s always a good thing”. In this I indicated that the quote was from Strawson so I would not have to insert an in text citation at the end of the quote, which I did in my rough draft.
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