Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. On the Page and in our Lives 3
6. Set 1 Revision Takes a Stand 19
7. 1 On Choosing not to Revise 23
8. 2 Consulting Editor to the Rescue 29
9. 3 Alejandra Chooses Life 41
10. Set 2 Revision Makes Space 49
11. 4 Revising a Cover Letter, Revising a Life 52
12. 5 Re-Visioning Letters of Recommendation 63
13. 6 Creating and Holding Space as Revision in WPA Lives 79
14. Set 3 Revision Approaches Feedback 91
15. 7 On the Slippages and Swells of Revising Digital Media 94
16. 8 “Another_Draft.DOCX” 106
17. 9 Revising Scholarly Peer Review 117
18. 10 Revision as Protecting What is Important 128
19. Set 4 Revision Meets the World 137
20. 11 Revising an Antiracism Statement for Known and Unknown Audiences 141
21. 12 Feeling Our Way through Collaborative Revision When the World is on Fire 151
22. 13 Whose Exigence? 163
23. Set 5 Revision Spirals 177
24. 14 Definition as Invention 181
25. 15 Uncovering the Veil 192
26. 14 “That’s Where it Sleeps” 206
27. 17 Drawing a Blank 222
28. Losses, Leavings, Remakings 227
29. Index 233
30. About the Authors 243