Revision and Self-Editing Skills
Become your own reviewer—develop your skills so you can make organizational and sentence-level adjustments to improve your draft as well as prepare clean, APA-compliant documents to submit to your committee.
You are ultimately the one responsible for preparing a publication-worthy document at the time of graduation—start developing the self-editing skills and peer support network now to sustain you through the long process of writing and revising a doctoral capstone research project.
Writing Resources:
Webinars
- Scholarly Writing: “Revising: Reflecting on and Perfecting Your Writing”
- APA Citations & Style: “Reference List Checklist”
Blog
- Incorporating Grammarly into Your Writing Process
- Becoming Your Own Grammarly
- Five Ways to Create Flow in Your Writing
- Tips for Writing Meaningful and Worthwhile Sentences
- Tools to Streamline Revision
- How to Give Useful Peer Feedback
- Writing Together: How Peer Writing Communities Can Be Your Secret to Success
WriteCast (Writing Center podcast)
- Episode 14: The 5 Rs of Revision
Outside the Writing Center:
Academic Skills Center