Summary Of Joseph Harris Revising

According to Joseph Harris’ “Revising” essay, some students feel that they can draft an entire piece from start to finish in a single sitting, and they feel that they have trained their minds to recognize and fix mistakes. (Harris 444) This practice neglects the idea of revising but instead promotes the idea of editing. He wants the students to reflect on these four questions in the following order: What’s your project? What works? What else might be said? What’s next? He feels that revising is simple to describe but very hard to do well, so he tells students how to come to terms with a draft, how to look at revising as forwarding, countering, and as looking ahead.
In order to come to terms with a draft, the student first has to establish a