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PROOFREADING AND EDITING PROOFREADING AND EDITING Seven hints to success! Seven hints to success!

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A slide deck on editing and proofreading for Senior high school students. Can be useful in younger grades too.

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Page 1: Proofreading/Editing Tips

PROOFREADING AND EDITINGPROOFREADING AND EDITINGSeven hints to success! Seven hints to success!

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What is the difference?

Page 3: Proofreading/Editing Tips

Proofreading

•Spelling

•Grammar

•Punctuation

Page 4: Proofreading/Editing Tips

Editing

Something different

Check your cohesion

How’s my stats?

Am I making sense?

Can my sentences be better?

Page 5: Proofreading/Editing Tips

Tip 1

• Give it a rest

• Walk away

• Come back refreshed

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Tip 2•One problem at a

time•Spelling•Grammar•Punctuation

•One problem at a time

•Spelling•Grammar•Punctuation

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Tip 3

• Double-check your evidence

• Statistics

• Proper Names

• Titles

• Quotes

• Dates

• Double-check your evidence

• Statistics

• Proper Names

• Titles

• Quotes

• Dates

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Tip 4

• Hard copy

• Print it out

• Read it on paper

• We spend less time per word on word we read on the screen

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Tip 5

• Read it aloud

• What makes sense in our heads doesn’t always make sense to our ears

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Tip 6

• Don’t be afraid of the spellchecker

• Don’t rely on one

• They’re there dog’s toys over there.

• A spellchecker wouldn’t find an error in the above sentence

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Tip 7

• Get HELP!!!

• Ask someone to read over your work

• Be willing to listen

• Everyone needs a little help