18 Oct Revision Workshopping

Ending Toxic Relationships with Revision; Revision Workshopping

 

Required Resources

 

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

 

Textbook: pp. 303-305.

 

Lesson

 

Apply the following writing resources to your posts:

 

Link (website): APA Citation and Writing  (Links to an external site.)

 

Initial Post Instructions

 

Main Post Part 1: Share Your Revision Plan

 

You have now received feedback from your instructor and from your peers, and you have already been applying revision strategies to your draft in the past week.

 

This week, you will perform final, guided revisions in six levels: global, section, paragraph, sentence, word, and final proofreading. After you have read and studied the lesson and the assigned textbook readings for the week, you will make a plan for addressing these levels of revision.

 

In one full paragraph, please share how you are approaching revisions now and how you will continue to do so before submitting your final draft. In this paragraph, answer the following questions:

 

Which days and time slots on your calendar this week have you set aside to fully address each of the six distinct levels of revision as addressed in the lesson? Be very specific.

 

Why did you choose these days and time slots? Be very specific.

 

By now, you should have begun working through the stages of revision. Which stage are you in? Please share how you approached the stage(s) you have worked through. What insights have you gained? What changes have you made? Be very specific.

 

Main Post Part 2: Share Your Rewards Plan

 

We understand the importance of self-care and of rewarding ourselves for our good efforts. “Revision Week” can be stressful because revision takes hard mental work and time and because you may also be very busy in other classes or with other endeavors. Review the portion of the lesson that suggests ideas for rewarding yourself during your revision stages in order to stay refreshed and motivated.

 

In one full paragraph, please carefully describe at least three of your unique post-revision level rewards for this week.

 

What are the rewards?

 

Where do they occur?

 

What will they look like?

 

Who will be there?

 

How will each reward refresh you?

 

Be very specific and descriptive; let your classmates truly “see” the creative and rejuvenating choices you are making!

 

Follow-Up Post Instructions

 

Respond to at least one peer. Here, in reading another’s post and replying to them, you will learn a great deal more about approaches to applying levels to revision and to avoiding burn-out through creating incentives. In your follow-up post, please share your thoughts on your classmate’s approaches to specific revision levels and note similarities and differences between your classmate’s approaches and your own. In addition, share your thoughts on your classmate’s ideas for self-reward, also noting similarities and differences between your classmate’s self-reward ideas and your own.

 

Approaches to the Poverty/Health Care Connection

 

 *Your sources must be published between 2018 and 2021 and must be scholarly in nature. You will perform your research in our library, narrowing your search to these years and to “scholarly sources only.”

 

For your major argument research essay, please identify a very specific connection between poverty and healthcare. Consider multiple reasonable approaches, choosing the approach you believe is best. Your thesis will be similar to the ones below; you will choose the very specific topic that most appeals to you and will argue for your approach as more viable than other reasonable approaches.

 

A possible thesis pattern (fill in the brackets and the blank with your specific choices):

 

While there are multiple viable solutions to lowering the impact of poverty on [choose a health impact like: mental health/one specific age group like prenatal/neonatal/preschool, elementary, ‘tween, teen, young adult, geriatric], the best approach is _________________________.

 

 Another possible thesis pattern (fill in the brackets and the blank with your specific choices):

 

Many approaches to addressing [choose an issue like the lack of mental health care/higher rates of a specific condition like heart disease or diabetes/physical access to health care/negative attitudes toward health care/less action regarding preventative care and minor illnesses/a specific health care issue of your choice] for people living in poverty exist; however, the most effective course of action would be to   _______________________.

 

This theme is broad and offers many possibilities for specific argumentative research topics. So, please keep in mind that you must find a narrowed focus related to this theme that is arguable and that is not based in personal belief. 

 

If we plan to persuade our readers about a controversial issue, we need to know what the experts have said about our topic.

 

You will use the Chamberlain library to find articles where experts discuss the pros of your chosen topic.