I think there are several good ideas that come out of this chapter that will help a teacher of revision. While evaluating a draft of a student essay, it is important to focus on both the positive and negative aspects. The attention to the positive will encourage the writer and let them know what works in the essay while highlighting the negative will focus their attention on what they need to fix, whether it be grammatical, stylisitc, or any combination of literary devices that need polishing. Teachers need to give specific comments and actually teach what needs to be revised and how students can go about doing it.
One of the best tools a teacher can use is a good model. High quality models can help students figure out what works and how they can emulate the model in their own work. Students must be able to identify, not just define, and use rhetorical devices in order to anaylize the model essay as well as their own essay.
The majority of the chapter serves as a pocket guide of writing dos-and-don'ts. It's a great resource for quickly checking rules and definitions. Several of these pages would make great handouts for student resource files.
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