Mrs. Lee's Color Code Revision

Mrs. Lee’s Color Code Revision reveals an innovative revision strategy for improving academic essays. Students often don’t know where to begin when asked to revise an essay beyond grammar and spelling errors. Color Code Revision gives students a starting place as well as a strategy to focus their revision efforts into creating well developed paragraphs with supporting details. This book starts with how to color code and then moves on to commonly asked questions regarding color coding and its connection to the revision process.

The Color Code Revision is most appropriate for formal academic essays, including various types of research papers, research reports, rhetorical or textual analyses, position papers, evaluations, summary response essays, and book reviews. This strategy can also be used to help improve informal writing during the drafting process.

The Color Code Revision strategy has been used successfully at the college level for developmental English courses, freshman composition, and advanced composition classes. Additionally, Mrs. Lee’s Color Code Revision is a great writing resource for middle schools, high schools, homeschool, and tutoring centers.

Mrs. Lee’s Color Code Revision can be used:

- as a supplement to any writing handbook or English textbook (as this book does not provide lessons on grammar or conventions).

- as a supplement text to any class that requires the writing of at least one polished essay.

- during in-class revision workshops. It works best if the instructor models the process on several paragraphs, preferably using a student sample of the same genre as the assigned essay being revised. Then the student can use this book as a guide to begin the color code revision process in his or her own paper.

- during peer reviews.

- as a self-guided revision tool for any student who needs to revise an academic essay even when this book is not a required text for the course.