revising and editing

13
A Student Guide REVISING AND EDITING

Upload: albina

Post on 22-Feb-2016

53 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

DESCRIPTION

revising and editing. A Student Guide. Revising vs. editing. 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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: revising and editing

A Student Guide

REVISING AND EDITING

Page 2: revising and editing

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

Page 3: revising and editing

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

Page 4: revising and editing

Sentence variety contributes to the organization and presentation of the topic throughout the essay.

REVISING

Page 5: revising and editing

Varied sentence types, lengths, and constructions produce a freshness of expression, insight into the writing situation, a sense of the writer’s voice and tone, and they demonstrate creative writing strategies.

REVISING

Page 6: revising and editing

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

Page 7: revising and editing

Show, Don’t Tell – Let your reader experience the story through action, words, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than by telling them facts.

REVISING

Page 8: revising and editing

CUPS Capitalization – capitalize the first word of every sentence, names of people, places, and proper nouns.

EDITING

Page 9: revising and editing

Understanding – Reread your essay to determine if it makes sense. Indent every paragraph. Add details about your topic.

EDITING

Page 10: revising and editing

Punctuation – End each sentence with the correct punctuation (., ?, !). Use commas to separate lists, and before conjunctions.

EDITING

Page 11: revising and editing

Spelling – Circle all the words you are unsure of, and use a dictionary to check them.

EDITING

Page 12: revising and editing

Read your paper aloud to a friend. Listen for correct grammar and subject verb agreement.

REVISING AND EDITING

Page 13: revising and editing

Give your paper to a peer to edit. Sometimes an extra pair of eyes may see things you missed.

REVISING AND EDITING