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Global Revision

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Every writer experiences the daunting task of writing, revising, perfecting, and completing a paper, essay, or book at some point in life. Whether it is for school or a profession, writing and revising papers will always be a part of life. While writing and revising multiple papers for Written Communications, I learned a lot about my writing style, technique, and revision process. Through complicated steps, I performed both global and local revisions in order to increase the clarity of paper, erase all sentence-level confusions, perfect my ideas, and organize my thoughts into a coherent, unified argument. First and foremost, I performed the global revisions. Global revision includes revising clarity, organization, content, and the unity of paragraphs including the transitions. In my paper, i performed a global revision in the way of paragraph unity and clarity. I made sure each paragraph discussed only one idea and not multiple. One of the most confusing and unclear spots in my analytical paper of the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” was the paragraph in which I analyzed the …show more content…

This included eliminating expletives, modifying verbs, examining sentence length, and improving diction. In order to exemplify my writing, I eliminated all expletives (except for the ones used in direct quotes) from my paper. I only found one expletive (“there were”) and it was after the word that in the below sentence. My original sentence read, “By using a well known historical event -- the Holocaust -- King illustrates his point that there were unjust laws placed on Jews during the middle of the 20th century.” After revising it and eliminating expletives, I saw a more concise idea which was, “By using a well known historical event -- the Holocaust -- King illustrates his point that society placed unjust laws on Jews during the middle of the 20th century.” Eliminating the only expletive in my paper helped clear up my

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