The Writing Process: I.M. Revision Handout

After doing Author's Chair with students for many years, there's little doubt as to its effectiveness; several other ways, however, are just as effective, if only in a different way.  Whereas Author's Chair involves the whole class giving feedback to a single author, the I.M. Revision Conversation allows for students to pair up and engage in a meaningful and authentic conversation using the previously disseminated Revision Questions.  It's important that students remember to append their initials to every line of the conversation that they write so that the author, when getting his/her I.M. Revision Conversation sheet returned at the end of the activity, that it becomes evident which parts belong to revisor, and which to author.