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To piggyback on to what NC said, you have to look at revision as a compound word. Look at its roots.
"Re"-to do again
"Vision"-seeing
Re-see your paper. Ask yourself the purpose for a particular paragraph, quote, section, even an individual sentence. To what end did you make it? Why is it there? And when you look over it, don't read it, say it aloud to yourself. Clumsy constructions will make themselves more apparent when you speak them, whereas when you read your own writing you have a tendency to skim because you already know what is coming next.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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