ABSTRACT
Close writers vary the way they look at and listen to their writing so they can effectively edit with consideration for their readers. The squiggles, symbols, and dots on a page must pass through our eyes to our brains to be converted to meaningful ideas and images. Looking and seeing are not exactly the same thing. Looking is to gaze at something and acknowledge its presence, whereas seeing is the more active and perceptive attention we give to something in order to understand it. Many of the teachers have found that editing is more successful when students highlight one targeted feature at a time. Rather than soliciting evaluative feedback, peers can be a writer’s objective eyes and ears. They can often notice mismatches more easily than the writer because they aren’t focusing on the content and they aren’t emotionally tied to the message.
