A&B Chapter 11

In chapter 11 in The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing it talks about various ways of revising a paper.  One thing it talked about was revising globally, which interested me.  Usually in papers when revising I would change a sentence here or there that would just effect that one sentence and nothing more, this would be revising locally.  When you revise globally though, you are looking at a much bigger picture.  Revising globally causes you to make revisions in several places based on whatever you just revised.  If you make certain changes in your paper it is possible you will want to go back to the thesis and make it better based on what you just changed elsewhere in the paper.  It is important to always look at the paper as a whole and not just as bits and pieces.  One other thing that I thought was interesting was using multiple drafts for one paper.  While I have never done it in the past, I can see how it would be useful.  In an important paper it is helpful to have the best possible ideas written down and shared in the best possible way.  To do this you would have to keep make new drafts as other parts of the paper change.  Having the best possible paper is important no matter what it is for.