Chapter 4 discussed several approaches to help writers start an assignment. Some of them, such as freewriting, are techniques that I have used myself in the past. They help to formulate ideas on paper. This generates a feeling of progress and a means by which to begin to structure the paper. These beginning stages are often what I struggle with the most when writing.
This chapter also gave some advice for making global and sentence level revisions. A few of the more interesting suggestions included reading a tutee's writing as a naive reader, and stopping at the end of a paragraph or section to summarize what was already read and anticipate what comes next. For sentence level revisions, the author suggested having the tutee read aloud sentences with errors in them. Asking questions about sentences with errors, instead of just pointing them out, can help the tutee realize the errors on their own and be more likely to recognize these errors in the future. The author also stressed the importance of not overwhelming the writer by offering too many suggestions.
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