A.R.M.S?

You had better things to do.

Like getting your nails done at the salon and shopping for that cute blue mini skirt you saw on Fashion Police or playing video games with a few of your bro’s, seeing who can chug down those last couple cans of beer before vomiting into the gray bucket in your lap.

Of course waiting the last minute, you type up that four page paper, trying to complete the assignment hours before class starts. Staying up to the break of dawn you finally finish that paper for that one class with that person that you have had a crush on for years with their back always facing you during class.

Soon you finished that long paper, faster than you thought you could and with so much time to spare you start drifting off to sleep but wait! You are going to present the paper in front of the class.

Fuck!

You don’t want to sound like an idiot in front of the class, especially with your crush sitting right in front of you, it is time for you to revise.

Revising papers can be a bit stressful if you don’t know what to look for or even not knowing the steps in you need to take, in order to revise. Just stick with “A.R.M.S.” No not your physical arms, “A.R.M.S.” With “A.R.M.S,” you take steps to look through that long essay and make it sound clear and organized.

First you start with the first letter, the letter “A.”

Is there anything you have forgotten to add in your essay? If there is, add it to the rest of your essay were you think it belongs.

Second is “R.”

Rereading your essay, did you find anything that doesn’t seem to belong in you essay? Then remove what doesn’t belong.

After removing what doesn’t relate to your essay, it is time to make your essay flow. Play and move around parts of your essay to make your essay run smoother, “M,” move things around.

After setting you essay down, is there anything that needs to be in a little more detail?

Make everything more specific! For example, what type of dog ran? The brown, dirty dog ran away from animal control because it did not want to go to the pound, duh!

Well the audience won’t know unless you specify your facts with these details. If you don’t the reader would just know the dog ran, it ran for no freaking reason even though you know that it did not want to get caught. “S,” specify chucks with details.

Soon, you have proudly revised your essay. Just give yourself a high five. Now all you got left to do is recite it in front of your class and your crush.

Don’t be nervous, you know your essay sound’s great after removing, rereading, rearranging, and specified everything and your crush won’t think that you’re an idiot. Maybe they’ll ask you for some one on one alone study time to help them on their essay.

Ok, maybe not.


 But one can dream.