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Appendix A: Concepts and Strategies for Revision 455 Revision isn’t just about polishing—it’s about seeing your piece from a new angle, with “fresh eyes.” Often, we get so close to our own writing that we need to be able to see it from a different perspective in order to improve it. Revision happens on many levels. What you may have been trained to think of as revision—grammatical and mechanical fixes—is just one tier. Here’s how I like to imagine it: Even though all kinds of revision are valuable, your global issues are first-order concerns, and proofreading is a last-order concern. If your entire topic, approach, or structure needs revision, it doesn’t matter if you have a comma splice or two. It’s likely that you’ll end up rewriting that sentence anyway. GLOBAL Revision • Ideas, Focus, and Content • Your Approach or Angle • Overall Structure and Organization LOCAL Revision • Sentence Fluency and Pacing • Word Choice PROOF- READING • Grammar & Mechanics • Formatting