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A Writer's Guide /
One Student's Revising and Editing Process


Click on the links below to see a student paper that illustrates the revision and editing process. These examples can help you when you want to:
  • clarify the thesis of one of your own papers.
  • improve the focus of a paper.
  • refine and add details.
  • understand how to improve an introduction or conclusion.
  • get ideas for general revising and editing strategies.
Jeffrey Voccola, an English major, wrote the following paper to fulfill the assignment "Write about a job you have done in the past, and evaluate it based on your experience." His large changes—macro revisions—are annotated in the margins. These macro revisions and his smaller micro revisions are marked in the text. The final paper is as he resubmitted it, with all of the edits in place.

Freelance—An Hour's Pay for an Hour's Work by Jeffrey Voccola

Download Edited Draft (Adobe PDF, 38.6 kb)

Download Final Paper (Adobe PDF, 13 kb)


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