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=== Revision Step 2: Edit for Style ===
 
=== Revision Step 2: Edit for Style ===
Style refers to changes that make your writing more interesting, engaging and readable.
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Style refers to changes that make your writing more interesting, engaging, readable and different from the writing of others. It allows you to express your individuality, and is an important ingredient in keeping the reader interested.
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=== Revision Step 3: Edit for Grammar ===
 
=== Revision Step 3: Edit for Grammar ===

Revision as of 22:23, 12 April 2008

Introduction

Editing and Revising is the final stage of the writing process that allows you to transform the draft you have into a flawless piece of writing. Essentially, this is where you 'hunt' for mistakes and take a look at the whole document to see if things make sense and sound right.

Editing and Revising Steps

Following are the steps to be followed, as suggested in the course text. We shall summarize each one of them, and provide additional details obtained from class exercises and web resources.

Revision Step 1: Adjust and Reorganize Content

Adjusting and Reorganizing content includes:

  • Elaborating a point
  • Shortening sections
  • Changing location of sentences, sections or paragraphs
  • Removing extraneous information such as unnecessary summary
  • Checking the logical flow of ideas and fixing them

Revision Step 2: Edit for Style

Style refers to changes that make your writing more interesting, engaging, readable and different from the writing of others. It allows you to express your individuality, and is an important ingredient in keeping the reader interested.

Style includes:

  • Tone
    • sdaf

Editing Style includes:


Revision Step 3: Edit for Grammar

Revision Step 4: Edit for Mechanics

Revision Step 5: Add Content

Example class exercise