{"id":477,"date":"2016-01-12T20:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=477"},"modified":"2016-01-12T20:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:53:49","slug":"rewriting-rethinking-retooling-learning-through-the-writing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2016\/01\/12\/rewriting-rethinking-retooling-learning-through-the-writing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting, Rethinking, Retooling-Learning through the Writing Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a college math class, I once took a test where I learned something. Yes, I learned something I <em>while<\/em> taking a test. The test asked me to explain the difference between two terms- it was subtle, but I did know the difference. The thing is, I hadn\u2019t realized that subtle difference until the question brought it to my attention.<\/p>\n<p>Writing makes us learn-sometimes by making us open a book and do research, and sometimes by pointing us in a direction we would never turn by ourselves. The reading and thinking we have to do to answer the question should result in leaps and bounds of learning.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s more learning that can happen later. That\u2019s the sneaky thing about writing- that precious learning moment can often happen in revision.<\/p>\n<p>All that early thinking we did getting to the first draft is just the beginning. When we take a draft and consider its order and message, we get to ask <em>ourselves<\/em> questions. Does this answer the question? What does this say? Does it say anything else? How do these ideas connect to each other?<\/p>\n<p>So while we can rewrite to clean up a draft or to get a better grade, remember to take a moment and consider what you could be learning during your revisions. You may be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a college math class, I once took a test where I learned something. Yes, I learned something I while taking a test. The test asked me to explain the difference between two terms- it was subtle, but I did know the difference. The thing is, I hadn\u2019t realized that subtle difference until the question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}