During my first semester as a college student, I had to write a narrative on a specific sliver of time that stuck out in my memory. Once I had that time in my mind, I was to create this five- page narrative using descriptions of all five of my senses that I could remember using during that time period. When I wrote this paper, I had to have complete silence. I had to take myself back to the dirty old shack in the Dominical Republic. I had to remember how I felt when everyone around me was speaking in a different language, what I saw and smelled when I looked at the patient I would be trying to help, the heat that made me want to pass out, and every other emotion or sense that I used from the moment I walked into that shack to the moment I left it. I usually must have silence when I am drafting a paper because I have to let my thoughts flow however they come at first, and then edit and revise.
The difference between editing and revising to me is that editing is the process of finding mistakes, while revising is the process of correcting mistakes.
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