Practice, Experimentation, and Revision
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| practice/ˈpræktɪs/ | Repeated work on a skill or task to improve performance or understanding. |
| experimentation/ekˌsperɪmənˈteɪʃn/ | Trying and testing alternatives to investigate possibilities, effects or ideas. |
| revision/rɪˈvɪʒn/ | Reviewing and changing work to improve its accuracy, clarity or effectiveness. |
Three linked actions
- Making advances through three linked actions.
- Practice 练习 is repeated work to build skill and understanding.
- It is how you get better at handling materials and processes.
Repeated work to build skill and understanding is called...
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Practice builds skill through repetition.
Experimentation
- Experimentation 实验 tries new materials, processes, and ideas.
- It discovers possibilities you could not plan in advance.
- Not every experiment succeeds — and that is the point.
A master study: practice, experimentation and revision 修改 are how 2-D skill accumulates over time
Practice, experiment, or revise?
Sort each action into the right category.
Failed experiments should always be removed from your portfolio.
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False. Evidence of experimentation, including failures you learned from, is rewarded in a sustained investigation.
Select all three actions that advance making.
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Practice, experimentation, and revision advance making; ignoring feedback does not.
Match each action to its meaning.
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Practice = repeat; experiment = try new; revise = change.
Revision
- Revision changes a work based on reflection, feedback, or new questions.
- These actions show across the body of work, not just one final piece.
- Evidence of experimentation and revision is exactly what readers look for.
Changing a work based on reflection or feedback is called ____.
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Revision improves a work after reflection or feedback.
Show your experimentation and revision, do not hide them. Beginners submit only their polished finals; strong portfolios include the tests, the failures, and the reworked versions. The visible process of practice, experiment, and revision is graded, not just the final look.
A student prints an image, then experiments by printing it on fabric, on newspaper, and layered over paint. One fails badly. She revises the best version, adding stitching. The portfolio shows all of it — the practice, the experiment, and the revision — as evidence of real making.
Making advances through practice (repeat to build skill), experimentation (try new possibilities), and revision (change after reflection/feedback). These must show across the body of work — the visible process, including failures, is what AP readers reward.
Write from five unchanged copies
- A student redraws the same picture 5 times with no change.
- Nothing is tested and nothing is revised.
A student redraws the same picture 5 times and changes nothing. Which of practice, experimentation and revision is present, and which are missing?
Practice builds skill. Experiment and revision change the work.
What do the 5 unchanged copies show?
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Nothing new was tried and nothing was changed, so only practice is shown.