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The New Writing with a Purpose,
Fourteenth Edition
Joseph F. Trimmer, Ball State University
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End-of-Chapter Activities
Chapter 4: Revising
- Find two or three articles or essays in magazines or on websites, and analyze how well each piece addresses its audience. First, describe the audience you think each piece is targeting. Then, as you read each piece, write a response to each of the five points outlined on page 83. Are the essays or articles well suited to their target audience? Why or why not? Describe how you would revise each piece to better reach its audience, or suggest an alternate venue for the piece that might be better suited to it as it is written.
- Chapter 4 stresses that "nothing identifies experienced writers more dramatically than the way they look at revision." Investigate what some published authors have said about their revision processes. Read 5-10 author interviews on the web (see the web links for Chapter 1), and note what each author says about revising his or her work. Do they look at revision as an act of fixing or an act of creating? Summarize briefly how each author regards the job of revising his or her work.
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