When I looked at the comparison of my two drafts of the essay, I realized that almost, if not all, my revisions were surface-level. When I edited my essay to get to the final draft, I looked mostly to things like rewording to make everything sound clearer and more concise. For example, I tried to take out unnecessary words such as “really” and change phrases such as “are able to” to “can” to make my paper concise. I focused most on these types of edits because these are what most of my peer edits were about. Looking back, I think I did most of my global revisions during the first stages of writing my essay. However, there are ways I could have edited the structure of my essay for the final draft. Right now, it has a very standard format and I could have changed that up a bit.
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