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Miller and Jurecic

Questioning

Understanding

Text to Self

Craig Fehrman

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Understanding

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Part 2

2)    When reading through Craig Fehrman’s article, I noticed that as use of technology became more apparent, revision started to become more advanced also. As Fehrman describes the timeline of authors using: multiple paper drafts as revision, if located in London the printing press, next comes the type writer which required the whole paper to be thrown away rather than hitting the backspace button. As these technological advancements continue to develop Fehrman argues that these new strategies might also be more difficult to actually do. He contributed this to the thought that before the computer, the author was not handing in the final form of their writing. Meaning that on the computer we correct and revise on the same platform that submit our writing. These earlier machines allowed early authors to adapt to different writing techniques. But without these machines, in earlier times paper was the commodity. This caused revision to be in its earliest stages, because without something to write thought down on, where would the revision be. We can see in text by Miller and Jurecic, that different types of revision also there. They talk about what copy editing is, describing that it is not a formal version of revision. They describe it as changing what the teacher marks with the red pen. This is an earlier form of revision done of paper is no longer one that is seen in use today. Throughout my high school and college career I have yet to turn in a paper in paper form. This informal version I see as a minor or small form of what revision actually is. Revision is described by them as changing ideas, moving certain aspects, or even the deletion of ideas.