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Teaching Revision: Even More Revision Prompts

Teaching Revision: Even More Revision Prompts

More revision prompts to add to https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-all-of-the-revision-prompts-so-far/ - I'm teaching revision again, this time for a senior thesis workshop, in which students are workshopping novels, plays, TV and webisode scripts, whatever...

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Purpose-Oriented Writing Exercises: Teaching Revision 16

Purpose-Oriented Writing Exercises: Teaching Revision 16

School is almost back in session, and the blog is back with some writing exercises meant to help students with various elements of craft. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].   For...

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22 Revision Prompts: Teaching Revision Part 4

22 Revision Prompts: Teaching Revision Part 4

This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision. Earlier posts can be found here and here and here. What prompts do you use to teach revision? I'm a little over halfway through the revision workshop I'm teaching this summer, and here are 22 exercises I've...

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Teaching Revision Part 2

Teaching Revision Part 2

This is a continuation of last week's post about teaching revision... -- After we've talked about the outside story's first and finished draft and done a number of macro things to think about how we look at a story as a whole, I move my revision class into thinking...

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