Graduate Writing: Revising

In Graduate Writing I, you spend the second half of the course revising your summary essay. Revision is an important part of the writing process. It involves adding content, moving existing content, cutting irrelevant or extraneous content, and refining sentences. Much of your revision in Graduate Writing I should be based on your course instructor's feedback. Scroll down for instructions on how to access your instructor's valuable feedback and how to track the feedback you receive, for use in this course and others. At the bottom of the page, access a 30-minute instruction session and a 1-hour webinar showing revision techniques you can put into practice. 

For every assignment, your Graduate Writing I instructor provides feedback to help you improve. This feedback can be located in several different grading areas. It is always important to read your instructor's feedback. However, it is especially important for this course because you revise the same document from week to week. In order to succeed, then, your essay must evolve based on the feedback received, as well as your own revision strategies.

To access your course instructor's feedback:

1. Go to the My Grades area and click on an assignment name.
2. This will allow you to review the overall grade and personalized in-paper feedback. The in-paper feedback may be found in an attachment or on the screen.
3. Select View Rubric to see your ranking according to the rubric categories. Your instructor may have included supportive comments at the bottom of the rubric as well.

More detailed instructions appear in the tutorial below. If you have technical difficulties accessing your instructor's feedback, contact Customer Care at support@mail.waldenu.edu. If you feel you are not getting enough feedback to move forward with your essay, contact your instructor. 

Feedback can sometimes feel overwhelming. In order to learn from it, though, you need to read the comments and take them into consideration for future assignments. After looking through your feedback, make a list of writing tips you have received so that you can easily review them for next time. This list will also keep you accountable for your own improvement.

The Writing Center has created a series of journals you can use to track instructor feedback on APA style, grammar, and scholarly writing. Download those journals below.

Each term, Graduate Writing I and II students are invited to a live instruction session conducted by SKIL faculty. The faculty member reviews student essays on screen, offers tips for revision, and answers questions from the audience of students. View the 30-minute recordings below to get helpful feedback you can apply to your own writing. 

• Recording from April 13, 2017
• Recording from July 6, 2017
• Recording from October 12, 2017
• Recording from January 4, 2018
• Recording from April 12, 2018