Joseph Harris's Revising

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In order to prepare for writing a summary of Joseph Harris’s “Revising”, I first felt it was necessary to skim through the article once again to refresh my memory of the article. After re-reading the article, I tried to identify the main idea that Harris was trying to communicate. I believed that the main point could be identified through Harris’s emphasis on the fact that revising is not just correcting grammatical errors, but rather seeking out these errors was a part of a larger whole. I also referenced our in class discussion to identify the other main points of the article. From there, I worked on a general idea of what I would talk about in my summary and made note of what order I would do that in. Then I began to write my summary,

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