Skill Check: Feltham And Sharen's Article On Revision

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1 Feltham and Sharen’s article on Revision
a. Two-sentence summary: Revision is hated by many students because they have the wrong approach. Self-assessment andvides strategies and tips to help one improve their revision effectiveness.
b. Longer summary: Academic achievement for any student is highly attributed to good and quality revision in preparation of the various assessments that the student will undertake. It is thus very crucial for the student and the teachers to put in place revising strategies which will foster more effective revision. However, most of the revision efforts must be done by the student while under the supervision of the teaching staff. When a student is writing a complex and laborious paper and may require re-reading the paper several times to determine the changes needed to make the writing good and marks scoring. However, when the paper is relatively less complex, this trend is witnessed. This is one sign of lack of enough revision for the paper that the student is writing. Most of the students find themselves having not revised for an assignment or examination because they sometimes dislike revising.
Revision should include entail rethinking a piece of work or writing the piece of work in another vision. Most of the students and teachers often take revision as an exclusive term of the form rather than the content. The research found out that the unwillingness of the students to revise is connected to the concept of self-regulation as these students show signs of intentional and self-directed learners.
Revision quality and effectiveness can be increased by using these tips.
* Practicing self-discipline of revision even when unwilling.
* Building a quality and better bookshelf for relevant extensive knowledge
* Fin...