Assessing Writing

The reading was over assessing your own writing you do for yourself, and how I should NOT do it. The book says to "shut off your internal evaluator", and just write. Don't worry about the structure of your writing, just let your thoughts flow. When you stop to fix the structure, or to revise, you lose your best thoughts!
The next section talked about writing for others. It says how we need to make our writing as clear as we possibly can, because we won't be there to tell them why we wrote what we wrote. Stay focused on the subject, and make sure we have support for what we say, and lastly make sure its organized.
Practice makes perfect. No one will be an expert revisor their first time around. Make sure that every paragraph supports your thesis statement. We revise to sharpen our focus, strengthen our argument, and to organize our paper for ultimate clarity.