Dialogs Book

Though more geared toward fiction writing, I liked many of the suggestions that Willis had to make about revision activities and think that (at least some of them) could be adapted to non-narrative non-fiction. I also liked how she used examples of writing from her students and self, allowing us to see how writers of various ages and levels of expertise use revision as a tool for enrichment, thinking, and learning. Her final chapter that talked about revising long projects was also full of good advice that could easily be used/adapted by dissertation writers. I liked, for example, her idea about writing a review of the book from the perspective of its ideal reader as a way to get a capsule glimpse into the whole project.