From my experiences as a writer and from the experiences of other authors, I have developed a small repertoire of strategies to draw on when I want to take a seed idea and grow it into a speech, a story, a book. This, for me, is what the writing process is all about. Revision for me, then, is quite literally a time to see again . . .
Meaningful writing is always for an audience and purposeful.
We learn when the knowledges and skills are seen as meaningful. Try to be specific. Try to describe them in those terms.