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"Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" was foundational in establishing revision as a recursive process.

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1
Experienced Writers seek meaning through
careful sentence level revision and reverse outlining
a holistic perspective
multiple drafts, vocabulary drills, and no social life
exploiting lack of clarity in discovery through revision
2
Which are NOT revision operations in Sommers' methodology?
substitution
incubation
deletion
addition
3
Sommers discovered that student writers were aware of
their audience but not their style
repeated words but not repeated ideas in their papers
their lack of sources but not how to find them
their lack of knowledge about their paper's purpose
4
Revision is best associated with a ___ not a _____.
Pen knife / Microscope
Microscope / Machete
Machete / bomb
Machete / microscope
5
Student writers struggle to bring essays into congruence with
MLA format
rules of grammar and punctuation
the right answers
agreement with a predefined thesis
6
Sommers' student writers failed to see that
helps you express yourself clearly
writing gives you rhetorical purpose
revision can be done quickly if you prepare ahead of time
writing is discovery; a repeated process
7
In MLA 8th Work Cited entries, the date comes immediately after the author's name.
False
True
8
How does Sommers account for the lack of research on the revision process?
lack of funding for composition research
all of the above
predominance of linear models based on speech
priority put on STEM research