Often, revising is difficult because the more you think about your essay’s argument, the more ideas you have, the more ideas you have the more the argument gets complicated, and as you bring in new ideas, you end up with more details and quotations. It can start to be a mess.
Here is a writer talking about how she organized her book:
Grammar Girl organizes
Grammar Girl organizes
You have to scroll down a bit to get to the video.
And here is is site that allows you to work with stickies. This might be quite helpful in organizing your work. You could put key quotations all on one color, or use a specific color for sentences that work out one particular claim or key term idea. As we start to use more sources, it might help you organize those as well. You can move things around on your project board and SEE the relationships between ideas.
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