When, If Ever, Should a Writer Rewrite? Ask Your Students

question 12

Essay

When, if ever, should a writer rewrite? Ask your students to respond to this question in a brief essay. You may wish for them to consider the problems playwrights sometimes face in receiving advice from different people for different reasons (for example, the director may wish a revision to clarify a point he hopes the play to make, whereas the producer may request a different revision of the same scene to increase audience appeal).

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Definitions:

Hardware

The physical components of a computer system, such as the CPU, hard drive, and RAM, necessary for the operation of software.

Secondary Storage

Non-volatile storage that is not directly accessible by the computer's CPU, used for storing data long-term.

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A data storage medium used for recording digital information, which consists of a thin ribbon of plastic coated with particles that can be magnetized in different ways to represent data.

Magnetic Disks

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