Investigating Editing and Revision Processes Involved in Writing Different Text Genres

Document Type : research article

Authors

1 English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch

2 دانشکده ادبیات و زبانهای خارجی

Abstract

The plethora of research thus far conducted on writing proficiency reveals the fact that in construction of written discourse, writers do not attain a well-written composition from its inception. They, nonetheless, undergo different recursive processes which are transpired during composition. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore the processes of editing and revision which were involved in writing four academic text genres. To this end, the researchers proposed three research questions and employed think-aloud protocol through which the participants needed to verbalize all their thought processes while performing the composition tasks. The collected data, then, went through content analysis based on a three-step procedure proposed in grounded theory. The results offered four main processes of planning, formulating, evaluating, and reformulating. The editing and revision processes were then subdivided into different sub-processes of insertion, deletion, substitution, transposition, rephrasing and correction. The research highlights the significance of editing and revision processes in teaching academic writing, as its main pedagogical implication.

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