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Editing &
Revising
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Revising• Revising is improving the content
and organization of your writing.
• Writing needs consistency. All the ideas work together to support the main idea.
• Sentence and paragraphs must be strongly connected.
• Writing needs organization.2
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Editing• Editing is correcting mistakes made
in regards to punctuation, spelling, capitalization, verb tense, etc.
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What are editing marks?
• Editing marks are the commonly accepted symbols used for correcting writing.
• They are important because they help the writer to quickly see issues in their own writing that need to be fixed.
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DeleteIn order to show that you should
delete, or take something out, use the following symbol:
I was was having a good time.
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Insert
In order to show that you should insert, or add something, use the following symbol:
Don’t forget to proofread work!
your
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Capitalize
In order to show that you should capitalize a letter, use the following symbol:
The dust bowl happened during the 1930’s.
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Lower Case
In order to show that you should make a word that was capitalized into a lower case letter, use the following symbol:
We should go to the Movies.
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Spelling Errors
Misspellings or words that should be spelled out will have the following indicator nearby:
Dan and Joe flew 2 Orlando on a big plain. plane
to
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Transpose Letters or Words
In order to show that you should switch a letter or word (transpose), use the following symbol:
I am going thier to party tonight.
their
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New Paragraph
In order to show that you should create a new paragraph, use the following symbol:
“What are you doing tonight?” she asked. “I ’m going out to eat tonight,” I said.
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