Revise and Edit Your Work

When the writing’s done, and your draft is finished, you can take a break for a while. But then it’s time to work on revising, rewriting, and editing your work. As you go from first draft to second, and then to your final draft, you may make a lot of changes, and you may want to record them in case your original turns of phrase were better.

This chapter looks at the revision and editing process, talking about parsing your work using the Linguistic Focus tool, finding and replacing text, taking snapshots, and marking revisions.

Analyze Your Work

When you’re nearing the end of your project—when you’re almost finished with your first draft—you may want to scan your work to find certain words you’ve used too much, such ...

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