My first favorite revision strategy would have to be glossing over the text. Before writing an essay over an article, I always reread the article a couple times and make notes in order to fully understand it. By understanding the article completely, it makes your written argument stronger. I also like annotating the work that I am reading because it allows me to get my ideas out while reading it so that later on I can look back to it, remember what I was thinking while reading it, and then write about it in my essay. Once I use these methods I find it useful to make a short outline with the main points from the reading and how I want to argue it in my essay. Putting ideas out in a fixed order on paper before writing the entire essay makes it easier to focus on the argument. Writing an essay without an outline sometimes leads to an argument that is not organized and this can make it confusing. I have found that these techniques are useful not only in english but in other subjects such as biology where you need to read scientific journals and then write a lab report. I often times find scientific journals a lot more difficult to read so glossing over the text, annotating and making an outline before I write my lab report is a lot more useful.