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Tham khảo tài liệu 'mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 40 THE WRITING PROCESS Here now is the revision Dee and Jack are an attractive couple in their late twenties bright well-educated ambitious. He is starting out as a lawyer she as an accountant. junior members of large firms they are committed to their careers and eager to move ahead. They live together. They say they are in love and they seem to be. But they are cool about it and about the possibility of marriage. Well Dee says I have my career and Jack has his. It s good that we re together but who knows where we ll be in two years Or how we ll feel I find their coolness admirable and yet a bit unsettling. Should young love I think to myself be quite so cool so rational so pragmatic Is good sense at so youthful an age purchased at too high a price Dee and Jack aren t unusual not among college-educated young professionals. Low-keyed emotionalism seems the dominant tone of the contemporary song of love. It s all very different from the attitudes I shared in the sixties. It occurred to me to wonder why. 1 don t think there is any single simple reason. . . Probably you wouldn t write such extensive marginal notes to yourself but those in the example suggest how you should be thinking. The revisions are toward precision emphasis and economy. How many drafts and revisions you go through depends on your energy ambition and time. Most people who publish feel they stopped one draft too soon. Many teachers and editors are willing to accept corrections so long as they are not so numerous or messy that they interfere with reading. Some on the other hand do want clean copy that is pages with no corrections additions or deletions. Final Copy Whether or not you are allowed to revise it your final copy should always be neat and legible. Keep margins of an inch or more. If you type use standard typing paper and type on DRAFTS AND REVISIONS 41 only one side. Double space and correct typos by erasure or tape not by overstriking. Keep the keys clean and invest now and then in a new .
