Tuning, Tying and Training Texts

   In Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts Barbara Tomlinson gives forth several metaphors which describe the revision process of writing but the one that jumps out the most to me was the metaphor of sculpting. I find myself so often wasting time on trying to “plug-in” different or extra information or focusing on polishing up one paragraph too much. In turn I waste a large amount of time and end up creating unbalance within my article; rather I should focus on my original piece. Then, fine tune and sculpt it down evenly to produce a uniform and productive article. Now, if we apply the example of the sculpting to the Wikipedia “View History” page you can see that in the revising process there is always the solid “meat” of the article and the sculpting and the chipping away that occurs to that original piece. Other people come in and revise edit and perhaps add a few things but the overall mass and shape is the same. I believe that with this metaphor in mind one can wrapped there brain around the process of revision on Wikipedia and understand that with the help of others we can sculpt a master piece of information. As far as the “Discussion” page on Wikipedia I find it more similar to the painting analogy presented by Tomlinson. The author might begin writing then come across a problem or something of concern and then post it on the discussion page. From the discussion page that author gets there brush wet in a matter of speaking and can continue on with the influence of an outside source. So although the painting still has the same base layer its may look different and changed by the input of the third parties discussion comment.