Every writing process begins with a vision. Even writing a paper by “shooting from the hip” involves some kind of vision or goal. Whether you are trying to write an “A” paper, or you are trying to do the least amount of work you possibly can to pass the class, you have a vision for what you hope to produce in the end. So, this is where you start: vision. If you are one of those people who plans papers (this is a good skill to pick-up if you don’t do this already) with idea clouds, or outlines, or pages of random notes (this is me, all the way), if you are one of these people-you have and use a part of the writing process called prevision. So prevision comes before you write the paper, vision is what you have while you write the paper, so that leaves revision as what you do after the paper, right? Not really. How many times have you written a tweet or a blog or a wallpost and kept what you originally wrote? Don’t lie. It happens less than you might realize. Most of us revise our writing while we are writing. That means that revision is an ongoing process. Your teacher might tell you differently, but that is because not everyone agrees on a common definition of revision.
P.S. if this sounds different from what your teacher tells you revision means, argue at your own risk. Teachers rarely enjoy being told that what they think is wrong.
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