As I look through my first and final draft, I see quite a bit of evolution of how I wrote immediately at first, versus how I began to evolve my writing into a much more fluid form. When looking back at my first draft, it was rather verbose but without a real thread or direction, more so a verbal mess than a real cohesive thought. When I came to designing my final version, I tried to make an emphasis on turning the words I had written into something more usable, such as shortening and breaking apart sentences or striking out excessive explanations. As for on the local revision level, I try and strive to make things as grammatically correct and have as few spelling mistakes as possible in my first draft so that I won’t have to worry about them in later drafts, but I certainly had a few that I needed to fix to make everything look nice and tight. Most of all in my writing, I noticed that I can have a tendency to keep one sentence running on and on, simply plugging in commas where there should be periods. In my final draft, I did notice that I still had some run-on sentences that could be revised and shortened, but overall they were mostly fixed. Another aspect of my writing that needed to be revised was its formatting, as it wasn’t in MLA to start with. But that fix could happen quite easily, as I simply needed to rework only a few things for that fix.
