Reading Response...

As I read through Bruce Balleneger's The Curious Researcher on how to revise a draft to become it's finest, I found that there are many ways you can go about the task. He first starts by saying that the relationship with your paper can't just be because you worked so long and hard on it. You must revise your paper to all make sense and pertain to the main point.
So his next point is that you must follow through with your main point completely through out your paper. He suggests that by writing your thesis to your paper on a notecard to reflect on through out the writing process will help in clarifying the point in your paper.
Another good tactic to use is after your paper is written and ready for revision you can then attack it with your scissors. You cut each paragraph apart and don't worry about organization because you must shuffle them up anyways. Then you can reorganize them how you feel they should now be put in order. This way you can also sort one paragraph at a time, which ones have to do with the thesis on the notecard and which ones don't.
Bruce Ballenger just wants you to be able to take control of your paper by driving the point home with the main idea. He then contradicts himself by saying that you shouldn't over power it either. So not too light and not too heavy but just right.