Preparing to Write
- How to Read an Assignment (Harvard)
- Brainstorming (UNC-Chapel Hill)
- Pre-writing Strategies (Kansas University)
These links to point to instruction for higher-order revision, or the substantive re-working of a body of writing, as distinct from editing/proofreading.
Editing and proofreading differ from revision, in that the higher-order concerns of the writing (argument, logic, evidence, organization) have been tended to. Thus, editing is largely a sentence-level activity, correcting and improving sentence clarity, word choice, grammar, and punctuation.