The Makers Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts

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The Maker’s Eye – Revising Your Own Manuscript, by Donald Murray
Thesis
Effective procedures need to be applied in order to draft any form of writing. This is why writing is considered a somehow technical form of activity. While in the process of drafting, many writers ought to look at the coherence and unity and the emphasis to write a well-shaped piece of article. Murray, points out that writers need to have a progression of drafts produced before they can eventually settle for the final piece of writing they intend to work on. Each piece of draft can always be rearranged and edited during the process of writing so as to be clearer and after all this is not the final work. While at it the writers should always be ready to face negative feedback and welcome positive criticism of the work they have developed. However, at the same time, the writers should always be doubtful of all forms of criticism and praise of work as this may not always be constructive. The author has also stressed the importance of rewriting by involving, scanning drafts, modification of problems that aren’t appropriate or relevant to the thesis statement. In addition the writers must keep in mind that they ought to be conscious of interest of the writers and be certain of their reader’s readiness nad willingness to accurately acquire the information which you as an author is intending to convey.
Writers must seek to understand the expectation of the readers in other words questions (Murray, p.84). There are other characteristics of a good piece of writing and they include: a) Compact structure, including logical arguments, narrative and motivation, b) Information-oriented, c) balanced and proportionate, d) concise expression of content (Murray, p. 85). Finally, the author mentions that writers need to give a correct definition of words. In this essay, there are three main ideas that are being a...