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This study aims to investigate the Chinese student writers''
revising strategies in English writing with a hope to see what
they revise, how they revise, and why they decide to revise. It
is expected that the revision research will contribute to the
study of EFL composition in Taiwan, and benefit teachers and
students themselves in the instruction of English writing and
the improvement of writing texts.
The study designed from the perspective of self-revision
adopts text analysis to examine student writers'' revising
drafts. Subjects'' revisions are classified in terms of (1)
the amount of revisions; (2) the syntactic level of revisions;
(3) the operation of revisions; and (4) the purpose of revisions.
Besides, revisions made by all subjects are judged to be
successful or unsuccessful to see the feasibility of student
writers'' self-revision.
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