Gilmore Chapter 4

I can imagine that if I went to the typical high school classroom and announced that today we would be breaking off into small groups and revising that the excitement of the classroom would immediately walk out the door, or perhaps jump out the window never to bee seen again.
As i've stated time and time again revision was something I even had a trouble with in high school and college because I'm one of those individuals that procrastinates until the last minute, hops up on some form of caffeine and writes a 10 page research paper the night before its due. Thats just how I work. Its not brilliant, its not efficient, but its my usual process. However, I am beginning to see the art of revision, specifically with working with peers to gain insight and ideas that I often miss because I don't write that first draft.





I think Gilmore does a great job of giving us multiple options of revising that can be used in a classroom that may be subtle and decent enough for even the biggest moaners to deal with. I liked how he broke down some ways for groups to revise, as well as the individual. One activitiy that I liekd was the color marking exercise on page 100. I think this is a great way for students to revise because its a little more fun that the typical "underline" or "circling" approach and I think the concepts that Gilmore suggests such as syntax, rhetorical devices, and supporting evidence are good for students to try and pull out of their paper. I think this would help students recognize if they are doing these tasks, or if they are missing from their papers. I also like that this could easily turn in from an individual homework assignment to a partners activity, by allowing partners to look over or "corlor mark" one anothers paper. Overall, great activity I had never heard of this and think it sounds easy and practical to do in the everyday english classroom.