The maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts

Real early in high school or even middle school, when teachers asked me to revise my writing I thought I only needed to check spelling. But it grew from there. I then learned that grammar was also important to check into. Then came word choice, logic order , and then figuring out if the paper even had a purpose or not. One of the earliest memories I had while revising was just burying my nose in a dictionary because I was one of the worst spellers in class. It never felt good to revise papers. Even now I feel incompetent with the revision paper. I usually am not confident with my own writing so when I am asked to help revise others, I'm at a nervous state of mind.