Final Draft and Revision Journal

Assignment #1 of 2: 

For this assignment, you will document the revisions that you make to your Writing Project 3: The Research-Based Argumentative Essay. You should document at least 5 substantial revisions to your writing project. For each revision entry, you should address the following:

What did you revise in the text? 

Why did you revise this element? Did you revise this element based on feedback from a peer or from your own review? What was the specific feedback that made you revise this element?

• How did you revise this element? What specific revisions or changes did you make to your text (reordering paragraphs, rewriting sentences, presenting a new idea, etc.)?

How did this revision change your text? Did this revision improve your text? If so, how? How would a reader respond to your revision?

You may want to create a table in order to keep track of your revisions. An example is below.

• Revision LogRevised ElementWhat did you revise?Why did you revise?How did you revise?How did this revision change your work?1. Overall organizationI revised the order of my paragraphs in the research plan. My classmate who read my rough draft said it was difficult to understand my argument because the topics jumped from paragraph to paragraph.I moved Paragraph 2 to the beginning of the plan because it was an introduction to my topic. I switched Paragraphs 5 and 6 because 5 addressed similar topics to later paragraphs (7 and 8).Reordering the paragraphs should make it easier for a reader to understand my argument because paragraphs on similar topics are grouped together.

You can use the chart below for your revision log:

• Revision ChartRevised ElementWhat did you revise?Why did you revise?How did you revise?How did this revision change your work?1.2.3.4.5.

Assignment #2 of 2: Final Draft (Argumentative Research Paper) Steriods in Baseball.