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Focus on Revising, Proofreading, and

Formatting: Revision in Real Life

On first seeing the Declaration of Independence in draft form,
some people wonder why the Founding Fathers would put

something so important into the hands of a person who made

so many mistakes. People see the messiness of the emerging

Declaration and don’t stop to think that Thomas Jefferson, like

any other writer, went through multiple drafts.