I now see that revision is a step that deserves a lot of attention. The whole point of revision is to redo whatever piece is being worked on, and make it as perfect as possible. Usually I would just revise my papers by adding a few things here and there, and changing gramatical errors. I honestly have spent more time editing a text that I was going to send to a cute girl than I have some of my papers. It is kind of sad, but true. I just realized, if I spent as much time and effort revising my papers as I do with my texts, raps, Facebook statuses, and Tweets than my papers would be golden! It seems so simple, just add time to the revision stage! I guess the main problem is that I'm lazy, but from now on I am going to try to put a lot more effort into revising my papers. I want to be able to turn in something that just clicks in the reader's head. I want them to know where I was going with my thoughts throughout the entire piece.
I need to work on expressing my own personal thoughts in a paper, rather than just taking information from other sources and summarizing it all the time. It is important to have reliable sources, but it is also important to express my own individual beliefs in a paper. Hopefully I'll start treating my papers like my Social Media statuses and texts, and actually take the time to revise properly.
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