What is an effective approach to revising my essays?
With regards to middle school essay tips, in order to revise an essay effectively, here are a couple of helpful tips. The first tip for revising an essay is to write your rough draft, step away from it for at least 15 minutes, get a drink, watch some TV and clear your head a little bit. Then when you go back, you're looking at your essay now with fresh eyes. Now, you see mistakes in your essay that you wouldn't have seen 15 minutes earlier. I recommend using a red pen. Think about your teacher, she's going to be seeing your paper for the first time and have a nice, big, red pen and just mark the essay up with everything that she finds wrong with it. Put yourself in her shoes and mark up anything you think sounds awkward with your essay, anything that doesn't quite work right or maybe evidence that might not be as strong as you like it to be. Once you've highlighted all those areas, you can figure out how to change and improve your essay to make it better. Lastly, you can revise an essay forever, but I recommend you revise it three times. After your rough draft, you should have tons of revisions, lots of red pen on that page, but then once you've made those changes, you'll probably have a much better essay than you initially did. Then you'll just go through and correct spelling errors, maybe grammar, add some commas, figure out maybe a couple different wordings, and then go back and change those on your essay. The last time you're reading your essay for consistency, just making sure everything is right and that everything is perfect before you turn it in to your teacher.
