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Enhance Your Essay: A Step-by-Step Revision Guide

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Transform your essay with these effective revision steps. Begin by reviewing your "pros" chart and infuse it with vivid adjectives and sensory details. Identify five key spots in your essay to expand. Next, focus on your verbs; circle all of them and replace weak ones with stronger, more dynamic alternatives. After strengthening your verbs, read through your paper to correct any spelling or punctuation errors. Finally, revise for excessive hedgers, gushers, and absolutes to create a more assertive piece.

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Enhance Your Essay: A Step-by-Step Revision Guide

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  1. Here we go again…Step 1 • Review your “pros” chart from yesterday. Add some adjectives, and add some concrete, sensory details. • Find FIVE spots in your essay to develop.

  2. Step 2 Annie Dillard said, “All of the action on the page happens in the verbs.  Verbs control when something is happening in the mind of the reader.” • Circle all of your verbs, including am, is, are, was, were. See if you can substitute stronger, more vivid verbs for the ones you have. • Revise (at least) FIVE.

  3. Step 3 • Read your paper to EDIT any misspellings, run-ons, fragments, comma splices, or other punctuation issues.

  4. Step 4 • Revise for hedgers, gushers, and absolutes. Find ‘em and cross ‘em out. Hedgers: Maybe, might, kind of, sometimes, it seems like… Gushers: Very, so, really, overwhelmingly…. Absolutes: Always, never, all the time…

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