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The revising process was a very important step in creating my best possible research paper. The one aspect of revising that helped me the most was looking back at the suggestions and comments from both the professor and my fellow students. These comments helped me to see the weaknesses in my paper, and once I changed or reworded these weak areas, my paper became much stronger. One area that both the professor and fellow students commented on was my choice in the title for the paper. I decided on the title at the beginning of my research process, and by the time I developed a full draft, the title no longer made sense. With a little thought, and a discussion with my professor, I was able to come up with a much more suitable title. Another area of my paper in which revision helped me immensely was in my introduction. Again, I wrote my introduction during the “Research Proposal” phase of my research and I overlooked that fact that it was no longer relevant and on focus when I produced my “rough draft.” The comments from my professor and fellow classmates helped me to develop a more appropriate and less vague introduction for my “final paper.” Lastly, the in-class activity that helped me the most in pulling together my sources and using them properly to portray my ideas in my final paper were the transitions revisions. Though I had discussed the ideas I wanted the reader to be aware of in my draft, I hadn’t successfully strung them together in an easily-understood manner. I think my most successful update in transitions in shown in the blog post titled “Transition Revisions #2.” In this transition revision, I re-thought the ideas that I wanted to reveal to the viewer, and came up with a smoother and better understood way to switch from one subtopic to the next. Overall, I think that the revision phase of writing this research paper was the most important. Sometimes, I look at my writing for so long that I can’t find anything that could be changed or updated. It helped immensely to get feedback from other people, to change my paper for the better.