JOURNAL 7 (:

Dominique Casale
COMP 2000

JOURNAL # 7


1. The writer is interested in researching the revision process. She, with the help of six professional writers, further studied this. With this, “An analysis of their work approach strategies showed their detection strategies to consist in anticipating errors and in comparing the author’s text with the editor’s knowledge, which appears in a range of states: certitude, uncertainty, and ignorance. Furthermore, the participating editors used problem-solving strategies to automatically solve more than half of the problems encountered in the text.” The questions that knowledge that she hopes to gain, are the answers the to following questions: “What defines revision in a professional context? What approach is taken by those who make their living revising—that is, professional editors? Are their resemblances between their strategies? How is their revision process influenced by the mandate they receive, their conception of revision, and their experience?”


2. They collected their data by first separating the six participants into two categories, least experienced and most experienced. By doing so they were able to see weather behavior varied with experience. Then they separated them into two groups against based on how they went about the process of revision. They also made use of interview data. They then developed a system to organize and grids to display there data from the research they had done. They examined their research and furthered on in gaining their knowledge of the process.


3. “Even though professional editing presents numerous similarities with the self-revision performed by copywriters, it nevertheless differs from the latter on several points.” & “professional editing is a process unto itself that occurs independently of writing, whereas self-revision is one of the three sub processes of writing, the other two being planning and drafting.”