ABSTRACT
Many of the matters discussed in degrees of revision and procedures are applicable to self-revision. But apart from that, much that goes on in the mind when we use language is completely inaccessible to our awareness, and is therefore not part of 'strategy'. Thus the term 'self-revision' does not refer only to checking and correcting that takes place during the post-drafting phase; the drafting phase includes some degree of checking-and correcting work as well, this being especially true of oil painters. Many people may regard the self-revision work done during the drafting phase, especially by Oil Painters, as simply a normal part of the writing process rather than a distinct process: as you compose sentences, you monitor what you've written, and occasionally you recompose. The European standard EN 15038 uses the term 'checking' for the self-revision work which occurs in the post-drafting phase and makes no reference at all to self-revision during the drafting phase.
