College Composition / Unit 20 CMP 0486 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Keeping the Writer's Meaning
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The idea
A revision should improve how a passage says something without changing what it says.
In practice
Turning "some students" into "all students," or a possible cause into a certain one, changes the writer's claim even if the sentence reads better.
Where people slip
When two choices differ only in what they assert, prefer the one closest to the original claim.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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