The LearningBase getting thoughts on paper Reflecting on Writing Revising can happen at any time during the writing process. Students may stop at the end of a sentence, reread what they have written, think about what they want to say next, and put it on paper.
Few students revise on their own.
Students who do go back over their writing tend to act as proofreaders, looking for punctuation and spelling errors rather than clarifying ideas and adding description. To revise, students must first detect that there is something to change and then know how to change it. They must take the role of the reader and think about what details and information they need to add to what they have written. Students must also understand and remember the different rules of language, and punctuation, capitalization. Even the strategy of peer editing can be challenging for some students.