Category: Topic 3: Process
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Berkenkotter and Murray “Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Write”
“Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer, and Response of a Laboratory Rat:Or, Being Protocoled” by Berkenkotter and Murray
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Revision in Writing
Where planning and revision aren’t separate stages but interwoven steps, challenges the myth that writing should be straightforward.
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Revision is Essential.
If you take away a writer’s writing process and give them a topic to write about in one hour, both the writer and paper are in trouble.
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Decisions and Revisions
In Response of a Laboratory Rat– or Being Protocoled, Donald M. Murray discusses what it’s like to be studied while writing, as Carol Berkenkotter
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Objectively Correct
Objectivity is sort of a buzz word in education. Teachers often criticize pieces for lacking it. See why I don’t agree here.
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Decisions & Revisions
Carol Berkenkotter explores the process of writing. Proving that the writing process is not cookie cutter with writers having their own style
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Writing a Shitty First Draft to Break Free
I used to think the phrase “shitty first draft” was a little crass. Maybe even unnecessary. Why not just write a decent first draft, something…
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Revision in Writing
Both authors contribute for our understanding of writing as both a skill and an art that intertwined with decision making and choices.
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First Drafts
My reaction to George Dila’s article, and why I agree with it. Every sentence and thought should matter and be thought out.
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You Don’t Need First Drafts
Everyone thinks that writing demands the use of rough drafts, an ugly template where we can refine our ideas – we don’t.