Revision Strategy. I would like you to take some minutes and reflect on your peer review experience. Return to your peer’s notes. Flip through your own. Now is the time to develop a strategy. Your strategy is the plan of action you will take to achieve your overall aim (Dictionary.com). Your strategy should include:

  1. Revisit the grading rubric as well as my notes on your last paper. What new skills are you working to incorporate into your new paper?
  2. What are your revision goals, articulated in your own words?
  3. List the steps you plan to take to achieve these goals (in order of priority)
  4. What you see as your biggest challenge?
  5. And what will you do if a challenge comes up that proves too difficult for you to solve on your own? In other words, what resources do you plan to use?
  1. One of my biggest focuses for this paper will be structuring my paragraphs a little bit more. At the very least, I hope to do a better job introducing quotes and using quote sandwiches.
  2. My revision goals are to restructure my essay so that my naysayer paragraphs lands at the end of my paper. I am going to attempt to start my argument deeper into the conversation and avoid explaining the bare bones of the argument. I also am going to complicate my thesis a little bit more with the counter argument and do a better job incorporating it into my argument. I am looking to go more in depth into why diversity of storylines is so important. There are also a lot of places where I can trim down my paragraphs. Overall, I am looking to refine my argument into more sophisticated and developed ideas.
  3. First, I will read through my essay and look for places where I can edit down, or eliminate so of my wordiness and repetitiveness. I would like to add to my thesis and include more about the benefits of the standard narratives. Next, I would like to eliminate my first paragraph about narratives and write a new paragraph that complicates my thesis using Strawson. I want to look for more creative and sophisticated ways to use his quotes. Finally, I would like to draw more connections as to why diversifying storylines is so important.
  4. My biggest challenge will probably be finding another use for Strawson’s quotes. I wasn’t the biggest fan of his essay and his ideas frustrate me, but I think I will be able to find ways to use his ideas to complicate my own.
  5. If I can’t find more ways to use Strawson then I may email you and ask you if the way that I am using his seems effective. I can also ask a friend who doesn’t know the essays if my use makes sense to them.