{"id":51,"date":"2017-03-21T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lschreder\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:19:33","slug":"how-to-reflect-on-a-revision-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lschreder\/2017\/03\/21\/how-to-reflect-on-a-revision-what\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Reflect on a Revision… what??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although words like \u201creflection\u201d and \u201crevision\u201d may evoke frustration for writers and students like me who<\/span> aren\u2019t perfectionist <\/b>and like to call the first draft the final draft, reflecting and revising work is a good way re-formulate ideas to better communicate a point in a more effective way. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In my last post, I turned my 2,600 work paper into a 820 word blog… frightening. To transform my paper to a blog, I had to use what works online. To do so, I had to discard some aspects that made it a successful paper\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

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…This was difficult for me because what I needed to cut were well formulated sentences and paragraphs that I pined over to perfectly transcribe my ideas to the reader. The parts that made my paper \u201cgood\u201d hindered my blog from being successful because of the different rhetoric that the online world calls for.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

After getting over my hesitation to discard my beautiful sentences that just don\u2019t work in the format of a blog, I was able to convey a similar message that was suitable for the new context. This online version became successful because I still was able to communicate my ideas, but in a different way. The blog was a new vehicle for me to get my point across.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In all of our years of schooling, we’ve been taught to loyally rely on models like the five paragraph essay. In contrast, the blog is a great way to add creativity to work and convey ideas with more freedom and less constraints and rules. This new freedom provided by the blog is something that was hard to dive into because it is simply foreign to me.<\/p>\n

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In addition of using different ways to get my ideas to the readers, the rhetoric and main points had to be changed significantly so my blog didn\u2019t act like an essay that was copy and pasted online. <\/span><\/p>\n

In order to have a blog that \u201cworks\u2019,<\/strong> I think that it is most important to shed the essay image while still holding to the integrity of my ideas– but in an appropriate context of a blog.<\/p>\n

To be successful, the transition of my paper to blog needed to incorporate\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n