For my revision process I began by re-reading my paper and reviewing the comments from peer revision. As I was doing this I was taking notes as I read the paper on things that I wanted to expand on or change in the final draft of my paper. Before I make any changes to the content or ideas of the paper I make local corrections, like grammar or punctuation corrections.
In this paper I made more significant changes to the content of the paper than in both of my previous writing projects for this course. One example of a significant change that I made to the final draft of my paper was that in my first draft I simply disagreed with definitions that Alexander had given in her writing because former child prodigies did not fit into them, but in my final draft I created my own definition for this types of child prodigies. For my final draft I created the category of “burn out” former child prodigy, the reason I did this and why it was significant for my paper was because creating my own definition allowed me to have a category that properly fit the types of child prodigies that I was discussing in my paper. This idea of creating my own category if I did not feel like Alexander’s definitions properly defined the group was something that was discussed in class while working on our eportfolios. I felt that discussing what other people are writing about or their beliefs about the ideas presented was an extremely helpful part of the revision process, as it allowed me to bounce ideas off of others in the class and to open myself up to other ideas that I wouldn’t have normally considered using in my paper. Once I made all the local and global corrections to my paper I re-read it again to be sure it read the way I had intended it to during the writing process. Each of the steps in my revision process helped me to create a much stronger and in depth final paper than my first draft.
