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Revising, Editing & Proofreading
Table 2: Editing
Table 3: Proofreading checklist:
Questions:
Aim: To provide guidelines for the revision and editing of paragraphs. These skills will also be useful for revising and editing essays.
Table 1: Revising Strategies
Source: Adapted from McKernan 1991: 74-75 Table 1: Revising Strategies
| Used for: | Things to Try | Useful? |
| Use a Computer | ||
| Pause | ||
| Read your paper -word by word- out loud | ||
| Summarise your paper | ||
| Quickly rewrite your paper | ||
| reate an Outline | ||
| Read Critically | ||
| Peer Review | ||
| Check your Introduction & Conclusion |
Table 2: Editing
| 1. Organisation |
one main idea |
Notes: |
| 2. Sentence Structure: |
active sentences |
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| 3. Vocabulary |
clear terms |
Table 3: Proofreading checklist:
| Proofreading checks | Completed? |
| 1. I have checked for spelling errors | |
| 2. I have checked for punctuation errors | |
| 3. I have checked for grammatical errors | |
| 4. I have checked my sentence structure | |
| 5. I have checked my formatting | |
| 6. I have checked for ………….........(your own common errors | |
Questions:
1. What is the difference between revising, editing and proofreading?
2. Which of the revising strategies do you use?
3. What items would you include on your own editing and proofreading checklist?|
MY SPELLING CHECKER I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot see |
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Anon |
