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