8th Social Studies

10 December 1998

Class Notes

 

EDITING LETTERS

(To Dave)

_________________WHAT TO EDIT HOW TO EDIT_______________

Grammar Read out loud

Capital letters Use different color pen or pencil

Punctuation (appropriate)

Word usage (ie. there, their, they’re)

Sentence Structure

Words?

Redundant words (ie. I myself like to fish)

Are sentences short and to the point?

Smoothness (flow)

Transition sentences

Change of ideas

Last sentence of paragraph --------------------------------------------à Read (topic) sentence first and (transition)

--------------------------------------------à sentence last in each paragraph.

Edit for form