Sommers

1. Experienced writers and writers in school see revision in to completely different ways. Students call crossing out of words and exchanging them for better revision where as experienced writers look at the content, structure, form and the actual rewriting of a piece.

3. Speech and writing are different because there is no revision in speech.  Revision can happen in papers over and over again and still not make a difference while revision in speech is just an afterthought. The speech is over with and there is no way to change it.

5. Writing processes are not straight forward, no linear line.  Each writer has a different writing process and none of them are straight forward and easy. I think students see writing as linear because of the way we were taught in school. There were steps for each process and the process was the same for each paper. We made an outline, made a draft, we then edited it, the process was the same each time and if we went away from it we lost points. Whereas experienced writers will create a piece different each time because each story, essay, article is different.

7. I would have to agree with Sommers because ever since sixth grade I have been taught to look for linking verbs, make sure everything is in the same tense, be careful of word choice, and never was I told to go back and look at the content of my paper and rewrite a paragraph. I was taught to make my paper better was to cross out and change a word. Maybe even cross out an entire sentence that did not belong.