Reviews for Developing writers, prize-winning essays

The average rating for Developing writers, prize-winning essays based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-30 00:00:00 Tanner Rowland Meredith Sue Willis has a playful but realistic understanding of revision. I appreciate her holistic approach; revision happens throughout the entire writing process and throughout our lives. She believes (as do I) that a first grader revising makes decisions very similar to an adult, and so the lessons of revision apply regardless of age. This book is chock-full of exercises for the practical-minded.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-30 00:00:00 Sergio Gonzalez 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.