"Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts"

In “Tuning, Tying and Training Texts” Barbara Tomlinson discusses eight different authors ways of revising their works.  I could relate to various revision stories because depending on what I’m writing, depends on how I’m going to revise it. The three stories that I think I use the most when revising are casting and recasting, sewing and tailoring, and lastly fixing things. I think these metaphors seem very true to me because I can relate to using them. Writing is a process, not just an action, so there are many steps involved in finishing a piece, and revision I would say is one of the most important.

            When it came to the Wikipedia article I think the story I used to revise the most was fixing things. In fixing things it is suggested that the writers who “fix things” don’t solve all of their problems at one time. I feel like this was the way I revised my page because I would handle each problem one at a time as they arose. The view history and discussion pages on Wikipedia can enrich our understanding of creating an article because these pages are designed to help us create the best article possible. Advice is being given to us on the discussion page. This advice is meant to help us know what we should add, or maybe take out of our article. It can help in the revision of a draft. The View History page can help us see what people have done to our original work, or what you should add to an original work. Both of these pages give us insight in different ways on how to better a Wikipedia page.