Chapter 5 Reflections

Sometimes I fall victim to thinking that my first drafts of writing projects are acceptable, especially when under a time crunch.  Chapter 5 clearly explains, though, how valuable it is to revise and edit text.  This helps with clarity, maintaining credibility, and truthful expressions.  A great method for helping with the revising process is to have a peer go over the text and have them offer feedback.  Knowledgeable editors are valuable, so someone that can provide truthfully helpful feedback is important to have.  I found it useful to go over the Ten Common Proofreaders’ Marks.  I had already seen many of them before, but some of them were new.  Now that I know all of these ten marks, editing papers ought to be more effective.  As a final note, I am not sure why it is necessary to have so many acronyms for revising and editing.  I wonder if DOCS could be just as valuable on a paragraph and sentence level, thus doing away with CLOUD and SPELL.  I understand what each of these acronyms is trying to portray, and with the regular overlap in values I believe they could be grouped together.