YOUR DRAFT · YOUR VOICE · ALWAYS FREE
Revise as a writer.
Read as your audience.
Use self-assessment and coaching questions to make your own revision decisions. The coach will not rewrite your work.
Assess before revising
Judge the draft as it exists now. “Needs work” is useful information—not failure.
Questions—not replacement language
Can a reader state your central purpose or claim after one reading?
What job does each paragraph or section perform—and is that order helping the reader?
Which important idea needs a more specific example, fact, quotation, or detail?
Where must you explain how the evidence supports the idea instead of letting evidence stand alone?
Which words sound vague, inflated, copied, or unlike your own voice?
Which sentence would a reader need to reread, and how can you simplify its structure?
Which recurring convention or citation issue will you check separately after revising ideas?