1. Revising and editing
Week 3

2. What is the difference between revising and editing?
Bell work
What is the difference between revising and editing?

3. revising Adding new information Cutting words and sentences
Changing the order in which information appears
Replacing weak words with more effective ones
Monday

4. Revising strategies CONTENT
Can you summarize your main ideas or events?
Do you have enough supporting details? Too many?
Will adding or cutting details improve your paper?
Do you need more background information?
Is everything you have written relevant?
Monday

5. Revising strategies ORGANIZATION
Does your introduction grab the reader’s attention?
Can you improve your draft by rearranging paragraphs or by moving sentences?
Do you present your information in an order that makes sense for your purpose and audience?
Do you need to add any transitions?
Do you have an effective conclusion?
Monday

6. Revising strategies STYLE Do your sentences read smoothly?
Have you varied sentence structure, beginnings, and lengths?
Would some sentences work better if they were combined?
Is your writing too formal? Too informal?
Have you deleted unnecessary words or phrases?
Have you used parallel constructions wherever possible?
Are you satisfied with how you say what you say?
Monday

7. Revising strategies WORD CHOICE
Look for vague nouns, verbs, and modifiers that can be replaced with more precise words.
Look for clichés or overused words that can be replaced with fresh ones to enliven your descriptions.
Is your choice of vocabulary geared to your intended audience?
Should you replace any difficult words with simpler ones?
Do you need to define any technical terms?
Monday

8. Use the strategies in today’s notes to revise Journal Entry 1.
In-class assignment
Use the strategies in today’s notes to revise Journal Entry 1.
You must make at least 5 revisions to get credit.
Monday

9. Fixing grammar problems
editing
Fixing grammar problems
Fixing usage problems (like misplaced modifiers or incorrect subject-verb agreement)
Wednesday

10. Editing Strategies COMPLETE SENTENCES
Are there any sentence fragments or run-on sentences?
Does each sentence begin with a capital letter and end with an appropriate punctuation mark?
VERBS
Do all present-progressive verbs, present-perfect verbs, and present- progressive verbs agree with their subjects in tense and in number?
Are verb tenses consistent and correct?
PARALLEL STRUCTURE
Are similar grammatical forms used to express similar ideas?
Wednesday

11. Editing Strategies PRONOUNS
Do all of your pronouns agree with their antecedents?
Are the pronoun references clear?
ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
Are your modifiers used correctly, with adjectives modifying nouns and pronouns and with adverbs modifying verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
Are your comparisons complete?
Have you used –er/more and –est/most forms correctly?
Wednesday

12. proofreading
Searching for mistakes in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
Proofreading Questions
Spelling
Are all words spelled correctly?
Use a dictionary to make corrections.
Watch out for words that are spelled correctly but used in the wrong context (like their instead of there or they’re) because spell checkers don’t catch homophones
Capitalization
Do proper nouns and adjectives begin with capital letters?
Are all words that are capitalized supposed to be capitalized?
Do all sentences and direct quotations begin with a capital letter?
Thursday

13. Proofreading questions (cont.)
Punctuation
Have you used commas and other punctuation marks correctly?
Is dialogue correctly punctuated?
Apostrophes
Do contractions and possessive nouns have apostrophes in the right place
Do you have apostrophes where they do not belong?

14. Thursday

15. Peer reviewing Giving feedback to your classmates
Getting help from your classmates on your writing
Can be done in pairs or in small groups
QUESTIONS FOR PEER REVIEWERS
Which parts of the paper do I like the best and the least? Where is the writing most interesting?
What are the main ideas, or themes?
Has the writer provided enough supporting details?
Are any sections of the paper unclear or incomplete?
Does the introduction grab me? Is the conclusion effective?
Does the word choice “sound like” the writer? Or do the words sound unnatural?
What advice can I give about grammar and usage?
Tuesday

16. IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENT Meet with a partner.
Read your partner’s Journal Entry 1.
In your partner’s notebook, answer questions 1-7 from the notes on peer reviewing.
Use the proofreading marks to edit you partner’s journal entry.
When you get your notebook back from your partner, read through your partner’s comments and incorporate the ideas that you feel will improve your writing.
Tuesday

17. Use proofreading marks to correct the paragraph on your handout.
Week 3 quiz
Use proofreading marks to correct the paragraph on your handout.
Friday
Week 3 Quiz