In chapter 5, I like how Harris says “My hope is that doing so will allow me to offer a view of revising that, on one hand, doesn’t reduce it to a mere fiddling with sentences, to editing for style and correctness, but…” (Harris, 99). He then goes on to say that he would rather give a set of questions for you to consider when revising, which are:
1) What’s your project?
2) What works?
3) What else might be said?
4) What’s next?
All of these are his first four chapters. This makes editing a little easier when you are able to ask yourself these questions in order to make your paper stronger, make more sense, and add what’s needed. I think these tools could be helpful to revising. He also says that these are not easy questions that you ask yourself, and that people who publish books go through hours, days, and even months of revising their papers. It isn’t as easy as you think when you read a book, but you never see their first draft.
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