Writing, Revising and Humans

Revision

Question 1:

Think about the most recent thing you have written.

  • What was wrong with it?

(Please read on for answers)

Welcome to our seventeenth session, and apologies again that it is coming late. This is still due to the UK’s Covid-19 conditions, and my hopes and best wishes are with everyone who is reading this and their families and friends, and to everyone who has been affected by the terrible death of George Floyd.

In today’s session, rather than looking at a particularly fictional technique, we are going to explore the writing process in a more general sense, and particularly the revision process. In our journey through psychology, we are visiting Roman Syria to learn what another early Christian writer thought about human nature. Please come in and make yourself comfortable; I will be with you in a few minutes after I have tried out several alternate versions of this paragraph.

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