Enrique Reyes
English V01a
December 13,2009
Review of The Craft of Revision
The writer’s process, the process that every writer goes through when writing anything is the topic of the book. The rewriting process, the process by which we rewrite and rearrange our thoughts on paper, is something that every writer must go through to get their writing to the peak of perfection. Carlsson’s book goes down the basics from rewriting before you actually write to rewrite to develop you work. Carlsson starts off the book by going down what writers need to write about and states that everything can be written about even about the smallest details of your life, all you have to do is rewrite and the clarity and focus, a topic is something that can be written about, it is something that is important to you is something that you write about..
The chapters after chapter one go into detail about the actual rewriting, rearranging your words, finding other words to fill in, gets your work into different stages so that you can build off from that, well at least that’s the whole point that I think Carlsson is trying to convey in the chapters, his whole reason for writing these chapters is that he wants writers to get to the best levels they can get to, this whole idea of getting writers. Carlsson sets the book but so that each chapter builds from the one before, so that you are going along this process and you are learning step by step how to revise and rewrite you works as best you can by following the steps include, as well as telling you what you need to do to get your thoughts on paper reorganize, he also gives the reader examples along with suggestions that tell the writer where he or she can bring their work up to speed, this I think is a very good thing to do when your are trying to explain something you get some examples to show what you are trying to teach. Along with teaching the reader how to rewrite, Carlsson also bring these principles into his own life and his own writing process, this is helpful to the reader and the writer reading the book how the techniques they are learning are going to be used in daily life and that even professional writers use the techniques in the book. Along with rewriting with the use of the pencil and hand Carlsson also brings up rewriting with the other senses that help you rewrite by sight and by ear.
Development, is what I think Carlsson was aiming for in this whole book development for the human while he or she writes and rewrites and writes and writes again, trimming what is not needed and amplifying what needs to be heard and read more of. This development of writing brings out what we want, in our work something that we are proud of to say we have written. Along with development of writing Carlsson also brings into question of what we have to do to write something to develop, before developing we have to first write and that is something Carlsson touches base on how to write about something that is important to you to write about. Using pace and using clarity brings you what you want you can bring anything on paper when you use these both things as said by Carlsson. And he all ties everything together in the last few chapter to wrap up things and to bring everything into one piece of work, with all the different pieces, and all the different chapters, the very end of the book is something that is tied up very well, and brings, all these things we’ve learn from the previous chapters into the final product, a well written and well organized piece of work, that for most part is something that every writer can be able to write at the very end of the book, with the tips in this book, and the examples made by Carlsson the everyday writer in all of us can be the great writer that we all have read about in the history books.
Works Cited:
1.Murray, Donald M. the Craft of Revision. Australia: Thomson Heinle, 2004. Print.
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