Gilmore Getting to Carnegie Hall

I'm still a little pesimistic about the revising process. Partly because I can hardly get my self to reread my paper, let alone fix more than grammatical errors. Secondly, I have seen how tough it is for middle schoolers to be motivated. I should be careful about htat though since they do not have the matureity level of a high schooler... for the most part.

I did like gilmores analogy of writing as the same as mastering a musical instrument. Revising, editin, and writing doesn't seem like practice, but that's just what it is. I became a better writer through editing and gradign others' papers This made me aware of mistakes I commonly make. It is often so hard to see mistakes in uyour own writing, since you know what you meant, while it may not be clear to others.

Gilmore's simple version of edition shows how it is important to not fix the students' work and point mistakes out for them, but teach them how to find the mistakes themselves.