Once Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept
Keywords
global revision, audience awareness, editing process
Abstract
Students sometimes have trouble understanding the difference between the global issues of revision and the local ones of editing. After reading several fractured fairy tales, students make a list of the ways the original stories have been revised—changed or altered, not just “corrected”—to begin building a definition of global revision. After students have written a “revised” story of their own, they revise again, focusing more on audience but still paying attention to ideas, organization, and voice. During another session, students look at editing as a way to polish writing, establishing a definition of revision as a multi-level process.
Original Publication Citation
“Once Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept.” On readwritethink.org, sponsored by International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English (June 2006). Highlighted in INBOX, February 17, 2010. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=971
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Dean, Deborah, "Once Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept" (2006). Faculty Publications. 9623.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9623
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
2006
Publisher
NCTE
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
English
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