Eng 101 - Donald M. Murray "the Makers Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts"

ENG 101-B09

June 8, 2011

Reading response #2 Murray

In this essay by Donald M. Murray "The makers Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts "Murray discusses how amateur writers can become professional writers. By reading and rewriting students can become great writers and editors. The difference between a student draft anf a professional writer draft is that a writer will go over and over a draft many times when a writer makes one draft and he or she is far from the end they will go over that draft until all the errors and mistakes are totally gone (Murray 281). Murray states, "That the difference in attitude is the difference between amateur and professional, inexperience and experience, journeyman and craftsman. Peter F. Drucker, the prolific business writer, calls his first draft "the zero draft" after that Drucker starts to count. A student may do one or two drafts and hand in their work. Murray discuses how good writer most reread and rewrite and revise they work until it is worth reading. Murray also states that revising and rewriting may not be necessary, but it is very helpful to a lot of writers. To go over and current every little detail of their papers or essays. Murray's essays has great detail on how student and writers can learn how to spot their own mistakes to become great writers and editors and also how rereading and rewriting can help so much to someone who having hard time trying to write a good paper. These strategies can help many common mistakes that students make. Murray has a lot of good tips that students can use. Some of the best and greatest writer reread and revise their own work a million times just to get it right. Murrays say a writer process never ends.