Some of my favorite revision strategies are to brain dump when I’m writing my first draft. It helps me to get all of my ideas out onto paper, so I can then cut back to make a more cohesive paper. When I don’t have any ideas to write a paper I will create columns of ideas to write about from all of my different sources, then I’ll use lines to connect ideas for synthesizing comparisons. A strategy I use for revision is to write down my thesis and all of my topic sentences. I use this to check to see my claim sentences are arguing what your paper is about. Before ENG 110 I didn’t use any of these strategies in writing, except for the brain dump technique. And I don’t really use these techniques outside of this class, since this is the only time that I write more creatively without a rigid structure. For future English papers though outside of ENG 110 I plan on using these techniques. These strategies will help me to write better papers in my future classes where I can write a little bit more creatively than my science classes.