Dissonance (Noun)
A. Lack of agreement
B. An instance of such inconsistency or disagreement
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In the article, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” the author Nancy Sommers said, “Here we can see the importance of dissonance; at the heart of revision is the process by which writers recognize and resolve the dissonance they sense in their writing.”
In this article, Nancy Sommers meant that students use revision strategies to edit and fix any work that they feel that disagrees with what they’re trying to convey in their writings.