Text of A Student Guide REVISING AND EDITING. Revising is taking another look at your writing and making...
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A Student Guide REVISING AND EDITING
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Revising is taking another look at your writing and making
changes to it. Editing is proofreading or correcting errors in
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. REVISING VS.
EDITING
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Analyze sentence lengths You need to make sure you have a
balance of short, medium, and long sentences. Also, avoid run-on
sentences by using punctuation. REVISING
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Sentence variety contributes to the organization and
presentation of the topic throughout the essay. REVISING
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Varied sentence types, lengths, and constructions produce a
freshness of expression, insight into the writing situation, a
sense of the writers voice and tone, and they demonstrate creative
writing strategies. REVISING
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Add Dialogue You may add dialogue by sharing interesting quotes
with your reader or by using a conversation between two or more
people to make a point. REVISING
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Show, Dont Tell Let your reader experience the story through
action, words, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than by
telling them facts. REVISING
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CUPS Capitalization capitalize the first word of every
sentence, names of people, places, and proper nouns. EDITING
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Understanding Reread your essay to determine if it makes sense.
Indent every paragraph. Add details about your topic. EDITING
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Punctuation End each sentence with the correct punctuation (.,
?, !). Use commas to separate lists, and before conjunctions.
EDITING
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Spelling Circle all the words you are unsure of, and use a
dictionary to check them. EDITING
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Read your paper aloud to a friend. Listen for correct grammar
and subject verb agreement. REVISING AND EDITING
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Give your paper to a peer to edit. Sometimes an extra pair of
eyes may see things you missed. REVISING AND EDITING
