Even to the professional writer, there is no such thing as a final draft, for the process of writing is fluid and ever-changing. The more you revise your writing, the better it becomes and the easier it will be for your readers to understand your position.

Peer Reviews. One way of revising your essay and making sure that your readers understand your writing clearly and completely, is to show it to others and use their feedback to improve the clarity of your piece.

• The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a useful online handout to help you with the process of peer reviewing. "How to Ask for and Receive Feedback on Your Writing" provides hints not only for sharing your work with your instructors and TAs, but also for sharing it with your peers.
• An excellent Peer Editing Guide, authored by Melanie Dawson of the University of Richmond Writing Center, will help you make the most of collaboration for revision. Follow her questions and use the suggestions at the bottom of the page to help you make constructive writing group comments. Adria Bader, also a Writing Fellow at the University of Richmond's Writing Center, has a thorough list of Do's and Don't's for Peer Reviews that you may wish to consult before you begin.

Revising. The following are links to pages that present additional ways to help you revise your essay:

• Revising: Having a Writing Conference With Yourself, from Florida State University's Reading/Writing Center Online, leads you through an excellent checklist of crucial questions to ask yourself during the revision process. Note that there are links to additional revision resource pages at the bottom of the checklist
• Revision, an online handout published by Princeton University's Writing Center, gives you a good overview of what the revision process entails and how to go about revising your drafts.
• The Revision Guidelines posted by George Mason University's Writing will help you work through crucial questions to facilitate improvement in your drafts. be sure to look at the "Revision Strategies" at the bottom of the page, and keep these in mind for future essays.
• Another excellent set of revision guidelines can be found on Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL); consult Revision in Business Writing for specific advice as well as a discussion of perspective shift, language use, tone, audience, organization, and writing conventions.

Final Edit. Consult the Purdue University's Online Writing Lab's (OWL) advice about Steps in Editing (Proofreading) Your Papers for this crucial last step.