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.

The Writing Process: Feedback Sheets (with Revision Questions)

Now that I'm finishing up doing Author's Chair in many of your classes, I wanted to post a handout that includes the original questions introduced during my "Editing vs. Revision" workshop.

The Writing Process: Editing vs. Revision Handout

As of late I've been doing Writer's Workshop with some of you and the response from you (and your students) is overwhelmingly positive. With this brought a need for all of you to be able to download the files I'm using in your classes so that you too can use and modify them as needed.

Long story short, I've managed to work out a way to do this, but I had to re-create the blog and create a "file cabinet" via AMS's Google Sites.  This means a new blog address, but I copied the previous two posts and hope to actually post much more so that the blog can be a true resource for you in the future.

If you click on the image you see, you'll be directed to my site where you'll be able to download the files as an MS Publisher file.