Pick at least one paragraph from the essay and revise it to make it “perfect”
This may include grammar issues, but simply fixing grammar mistakes is not revision; that’s editing
To effectively revise your essay, start with the word “revise.” To revise is to “see again,” to revisit, to re-visualize, to re-imagine your essay (or paragraph, in this case). Revising may mean completely restructuring your essay/paragraph, adding whole chunks of analysis, or even removing troublesome passages that perhaps were off-topic or irrelevant.
In general, what I’ve observed while reading through all of the essay submissions this semester (Spring 2021) is a need for more in-depth textual analysis. Given that our foundational text (“The Task of the Translator”) tells us that a text’s mode effects that text’s meaning, it is critical that we closely examine how our cited texts’ modes contribute to meaning, too.
In addition, add a paragraph (250 words) reflection explaining what you changed, why you changed it, and how you will avoid the same sorts of pitfalls in the future. In other words, what skills or strategies have you developed as a result of completing your revision?
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