This chapter was about revising your work. Sometimes work might be too long or too short or not enough detail to support the thesis. Revising can be difficult because people don't like to read their work from an audience point of view. When you do revise from an audience point of view certain questions have to be asked such as, "What is the main point?" or "Why are the paragraphs in the order that they are in?"
After revising the essay you have to edit the essay for errors, create the final product then proofread. When proofreading it has to be slow and precise. Proofreading out loud will help when reading your own work so that you can make sure you are not reading it how you intended on writing it.
I think this chapter was talking directly to me. I thought it was funny when it stated that it is hard to read your own work. That's me! Just how actors probably feel when they watch themselves acting, I feel the same way when I read my own work. In fact, I don't even like when someone else is reading my own work out loud to me. It is hard, but I have to get past that. I know how hard it is but I have to start to learn how to read my own work from an audiences point of view and be ok with it for one and two reread it seriously to revise. Proofreading is very important. I do it now and will continue to do it. I do have to say that I don't do it all the time and that is what I have to improve on. I have to make sure that every single time I write anything, even a text message, I have to proofread. I have to tell myself even if I am in a hurry, proofreading is very important and most important especially when I'm in a hurry.
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