Learning to revise documents is one of the three major thrusts of the course.
However, other than noticing sentences that are just horribly awkward,
many students have difficulty identifying what they should revise,
especially in their own writing.
Having a Targets for Revising list provides students with a starting point to
begin to experiment with revising the sentences they wrote while drafting.
If you take the TFR list seriously and practice revising with the items on the list,
you will, in all likelihood, extend your revising practices beyond the types of
sentences on the list.
In other words, if you use the TFR as a starting point, you will learn how to
manipulate the sentences you write, and you will develop a sensibility about which of
your sentences require attention, including sentences that aren't examples of the TFRs.