Summary: In "Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision," Barbara Tomlinson discusses how professional writers use metaphors to describe the ways they develop their writing. (pg. 251) She chooses eight stories that are about revising instead of talking about the whole process.
QD: 1. She may say this because it's in the form of a metaphor.
2. It can also be a way of not seeing writing because it can be hard sometimes to find the underlying message. We can get around this by still making our writing individualized.
3. I don't really use any, but I'd say the 'sewing' one I feel because I always later have to go back and patch things up in my work. I need to spend more time 'fixing things' on my revising because that is something that I know I lack.
4. I think she did because when she says 'later' "less flexible" I do not think that it is really ever to late to go back to something.
5. Metaphors do not have that big of an effort on my revising.
Reflection: This piece was interesting in the fact that is was showing you that some metaphors are figurative.
I agree with your answer to #3 because I also think writing can be like sewing. I often go back and patch up my writing.
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