One of my favorite papers that I’ve written, I actually wrote last semester. It was a personal narrative paper. All through high school I would procrastinate on my major papers and end up doing them the night before it was due. During the fall semester as I wrote my personal narrative paper, I decided I would take some more time on it, and I found out it worked well for me. I made a list of events that happened during my specific topic, and started with the first event. When I write a paper I prefer silence, or close to it so that I can concentrate. For my personal narrative paper I worked in class a lot, which gave me quiet time, and also at night, while I was in my room. When I was finished I had my brother, a person familiar of the narrative event, read my paper and also an unfamiliar friend read it. Each of them helped me with what needed fixed, and I revised my paper.
The difference between editing and revising is a fine line. I believe editing a paper means going through and finding the errors, whether it is spelling, grammatical, or even formatting errors. On the other hand, I believe revising is fixing those mistakes, and also making the paper or piece of writing more “readable”, or making it flow better. Although they are different tasks, I believe both are important in writing.
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