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Revision is the act of revising, it is to correct, edit and redraft. When I begin to revise a paper, first I reread what I wrote then afterwards, I read it aloud, the human mind won’t necessarily point out the mistakes because the brain will correct what you read and implement it to what needs to be there. Depending on the topic or the importance of the paper, I’ll ask around for help, or sometimes I would ask a friend to edit my paper to point out my mistakes and learn from them.
Ever since 8th grade I pushed myself to convert to an improved writer through the art of literature. It’s a skill that can demonstrate feelings through sentence fluency, in which can sometimes make a person cry. Every time I write a paper I try to demonstrate the prompt with description, everything I know has come through the years of learning from English teachers and of course, by reading. I tend to expand my vocabulary knowledge and put it all in my writing.
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The answer to if I have changed as a writer would be yes, I can only become a stronger writer. When writing in first person as I am now, is the most intimate in my opinion, because I am writing my story and my perspective. It can be pleasurable on an emotional state for both the reader and the writer because it shows how reality can change with a different state of mind or outlook. As perspective changes the world, as Nelson Mandela an anti-apartheid revolutionary politician changed perspective, as Martin Luther King Jr. ‘the dreamer” changed standpoint, Ameleano Zapata fought for freedom during the revolution in Mexico—he changed the views of many Mexicans. All of these hero’s changed perspective of the world and made a different, I’d like to do the same thing through my

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