Cut-and-Paste Revision

   For this assignment I had to do the cut-and-paste revision. Now some of you may not know what the cut-and-paste revision is so I will tell you what it is and how to do it. To do the cut-and-paste revision you first had to write your thesis sentence out on a sticky note and put that beside you for later. Next you take a hard copy of your paper and a scissors and you proceed to cut out all the paragraphs in your paper. After you have cut out all the paragraphs in your paper you put them on a pile and mix them all up. Then with the sticky note in hand you take every paragraph and see if it explains or expounds on your thesis statement. Or in other words you read each paragraph to see if it is relevant to you thesis statement. Make a stack for the paragraphs that are relevant and a stack for the ones that are not. Once you have the stack that is relevant to your thesis statement you take them and try and arrange them in a way that makes sense like you were writing a new paper. The point of this exercise is to help take away paragraphs that are not relevant to your main idea and it helps you see were you might need to add some information.
   Before I started cutting I believed that this exercise would help my paper, but I was a little worried as to what I might find or how many paragraphs I had to cut out. After I had cut them all I had found about two paragraphs that did not go with my thesis statement and a few that were border line. Overall I learned that I needed to stick to my thesis sentence and not go wondering off.