As your second essay for class, revise your ESSAY 1.

We will discuss revision in class over the next couple days. By revision, I do not mean merely editing (cleaning up typos, misspellings, or punctuation problems). You should certainly edit for errors in your revision, but you should also make more substantial changes. If you turn in exactly the same paper for ESSAY 2 as for ESSAY 1, you will get at least one full letter grade lower on ESSAY 2 than you did on ESSAY 1. The purpose of ESSAY 2's assignment is to help you to develop your revision skills . As a result, ESSAY 2 will be graded as much on the effectiveness and significance of the revisions you make as on the paper's inherent merits by itself.

As a way to revise, you may choose to do additional research in order to support your claims better. You may choose to reorganize your paper to improve its efficiency, coherence, or appeal. You may decide to experiment with more risky arguments for your initial claim. You may re-think your logic to refine and focus your reasoning better. You may choose to modify your writing style for clarity, elegance, or "flow." Whatever revisions you choose to make, they must represent a significant change from the original and a serious re-thinking/re-seeing (that is, re-vision) of ESSAY 1.

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