It always amazes me what connections exist between totally different things in the world and I love it! The correlation between natural selection and revision totally makes sense to me. In both the strongest most attractive attributes get carried on and that's how people and writing improves itself. If you find something in your essay that doesn't work you're not likely to include it again because you already know that it's not functional, just like how natural selection eliminates attributes that don't function so that we are left with the best end products possible. Of course there's always mutations or mistakes but without them life would become boring and monotone.
When I revise my essay I plan to listen/read what the professor has to say about my paper and think about it for a day or so before I begin to revise my paper/pick which one I want to revise. (Although I am fairly certain I'm going to pick my second essay to revise and submit for a final grade.) It is of course useful to sit in front of my computer and work at my paper to edit and improve it, but I find that the time away from papers thinking about it and scribbling down random thoughts and improvements on scrap paper shoved in pockets is the most useful. I also find it helpful to print out a copy of my paper and edit it the old fashioned way with pen.
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