When done with the 1st draft, they feel they are done. Teachers must stress that revising is a necessary step to a published piece. As the students become accustomed to rewriting and improving their papers, they will find it less difficult and the quality will increase. Included here are some examples of activities which help develop revision skills. Students must communicate only by written text for a specified time and the correspondents revise the message when appropriate.
Students revise their response after viewing the slides a second time.
Not only must they learn conventional editing and proofreading markings, but they must become efficient with the tools of word processing. Keyboarding is critical to entering text, but editing text is critical to an acceptable word processed product. The following lessons give practice in editing work. Dear Pen Pal - Writers use tab functions and text style. There are several ways to publish students work using technology.