Text II
The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts
I. Teaching objectives
Understanding the creative nature of writing and revision
Developing some skills for doing revision in writing
II. Warm-up questions
Do you think it is necessary to do revision after finishing your writing?
Are you in the habit of revising position before handling in?
How do you revise your writing?
What should be taken into consideration when doing revision? What skills are needed?
Do you find the advise given by the author useful or not?
III. Relevant information
The author -- Donald M. Murray, U. S. writer, has made the art of writing well his work for decades. He has been an editor of Time magazine. In 1954 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in the Boston Globe. He has published novels, short stories and poetry, but is perhaps best known for his writing on writing. His Write to Learn is a popular position textbook in the . The text given here is a revision of the original that appears in the “The Writer”.
The title “The maker’s eye”--- The word maker suggests the use of appropriate material as an instrument through which one gives form to one’s own ideas. The word eye means the faculty of intellectual or aesthetic perception or appreciation. The Maker’s eye may be interpreted as “the power of judging whether a piece of writing is intellectually and aesthetically exc
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