A Recent Work

Last semester, I wrote a sermon, which I presented to my church. I had about four weeks to work on it, and it was basically everything that I have figured out in my Christian faith, my incomplete journey towards God. 

All of my main ideas, which seemed to have no relation at all, were written in one night, about two weeks before the big day to present it. It was a huge brainstorm. I prayed, I listened to music, I worshipped, I listened. The difficult part was getting all of the ideas to seem relative to each other. I needed transitions badly. It was a matter of simply putting down a few sentences to make the ideas relate, but I struggled immensely with that. Without transitions my sermon would have been a complete mess that made no sense whatsoever. Eventually though, I came up with the needed transitions that made my sermon a hit, but it would not have been that way if I hadn't revised and edited it.

Revising and editing are very similar in the sense that they are both meant to make a paper better, but they are different also. Editing is mainly grammar stuff, while revision has to do with the content of the work. If I were to edit a paper, I would check for spelling and grammar mistakes. For revision, I would look at the content of the paper, and make sure the ideas are stated clearly, and sensibly.