Reaction to The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts by Donald Murray

        Writing a literary work is often a difficult task to do. Revising that work is even harder. This essay provides a systematic approach to revising a manuscript by giving key concepts and ideas to watch out for and to focus on when revising.

         Firstly, you have to make sure your works is informative. All the information you want your readers to know must be in the piece. Secondly, your information must have meaning and it must be understandable by the readers. Otherwise, your work would be pointless. Thirdly, you must keep in mind the audience you are writing for. This helps to make sure your work is suitable and effective. Next, you must look at the form and structure of the work to make sure the piece is logical, cohesive and united. Then, you must spend time in the development of your work. All the information and its meaning must be explained and expounded adequately for the readers to understand. along with this, the dimension or balance of each paragraph and idea must be kept in proportion with each other. Lastly, you must add your own voice into the piece. A touch of personality would make the piece your own and could be the fine line between mediocre and incredible writing.

          All these steps serve as guides to make your literary work the best it can be. Nevertheless, they are simply guides to your writing. People have different styles and methods of writing and revising their work, and you do not have to strictly follow the steps presented. There will always be more room for improvement and an advice given in the text is to always have another run at revising your work.