| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Murray, Donald M. “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.” [The Writer, 1973.] The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 86-90. Print. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | I never realized how much pre-writing goes into professional writing, so to hear the first draft is really just to get ideas is honestly insane to me. Murray talks about how most writers revise by page rather by draft but every writer truly has their own process. Revision comes natural to most writers so they do it along the way yet multiple revisions occur throughout the piece. Some writers never even have to write because they are able to do all drafts in their head. The fact that things are sent to be published with frustration because a piece of writing is never finished, astonishes me because when things are published, mass majority of people will think it is perfectly written. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Nuance- A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
The concept that a piece of writing is never finished. |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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It sort of connected to an article I read my senior year about careers not always being seen as a tedious job, but as self improvement each time. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Can a piece of writing ever be complete? |