Throughout my revision process, I am looking at my paper and imagining someone else wrote it and I have to peer review it for them. I see what makes sense to me and what could use touching up. I already wrote the revision for my first piece of my portfolio. I took the advise people gave me about my piece and look for evidence of it myself. Then I restructured my paper because it was very confusing and I wasn't even sure what I was trying to say. After figuring out my main points, I was able to reword and make my paper more coherent.
I think would translate into most other classes where writing is involved because you need to be able to make your papers coherent and have a clear meaning. Rereading your own paper is good but I definitely see limitations with it. You know the material and you also know your own line of thinking, but when someone else reads it then they might get confused. Someone might not always be available to look over your papers for you so that is why I tried reading my paper as though someone else wrote it. This is can be difficult just because its still your work but if you can think about it as not yours then it works nicely. I was able to see the lack of organization in my paper and how repetitive I was sounding.
Overall, you should always do what works for you best but when in doubt ask someone their opinion.
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