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Editing Checklist

Given to me by my eighth grade English teacher, great guide for Middle School students editing papers.

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Editing Checklist

Given to me by my eighth grade English teacher, great guide for Middle School students editing papers.

Uploaded by

Andrew Mack
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
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Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
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Editing Checklist Writer’s Name:

Date & Period:


Writer’s Topic:

Use your RED PEN to make corrections. Remember, this paper is a work in progress.
You are not done writing! Look for ways to improve what you’ve already written.

Check off each step AFTER it has been completed.

_____ 1. Read the paper backwards, one sentence at a time. Check for spelling errors.
Use a dictionary, a friend, or a spell checker to find the correct spelling.
_____ 2. Check to make sure toy capitalized proper nouns and the first word of each
sentence.
_____ 3. Indent each of your paragraphs.
_____ 4. Every sentence should have end punctuation.
_____ 5. Check your commas. Are they only used for compound sentences, a list of
items, an introductory word or phrase, direct address, setting off interruptions,
separating adjectives, or in dates? Do you need to add commas? Make sure you
do not have commas separating complete sentences (that creates a run-on
sentence).
_____ 6. Apostrophes are used only for contractions and to show ownership.
_____ 7. The use of more complex punctuation (dashes, hyphens, semi-colons,
parentheses, etc.) is done correctly.
_____ 8. Have you used commonly mixed pairs of words correctly? Check these:
they’re/their/there, your/you’re, it’s/its, a/an, to/too/two, are/our/hour, and
others.
_____ 9. Read the paper backwards one sentence at a time. Check for sentence
fragments and run-ons and correct them.
_____ 10. Did you stay in present tense (such as is, am, do, take, know, etc.) or past
tense (such as was, were, did, took, knew, etc.) throughout the entire paper?
_____ 11. Did you stay in first person (I, me, my, we, us, our) or third person (he, him,
she, her, they, them, their) throughout the entire paper?

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