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Writing Checklist

This document provides a writing checklist to help improve written work. It outlines three main checks: content, organization, and expression/formulation. For content, it recommends ensuring the information is organized logically, sufficiently elaborated, interesting, relevant and coherent without being redundant. For organization, it suggests using titles, headings, paragraphs with clear introduction, body, and conclusion. It also recommends logical flow of ideas and appropriate formatting. For expression, it advises using precise and correctly spelled vocabulary, proper grammar including subject-verb agreement and punctuation, and cohesive links between sentences.

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Writing Checklist

This document provides a writing checklist to help improve written work. It outlines three main checks: content, organization, and expression/formulation. For content, it recommends ensuring the information is organized logically, sufficiently elaborated, interesting, relevant and coherent without being redundant. For organization, it suggests using titles, headings, paragraphs with clear introduction, body, and conclusion. It also recommends logical flow of ideas and appropriate formatting. For expression, it advises using precise and correctly spelled vocabulary, proper grammar including subject-verb agreement and punctuation, and cohesive links between sentences.

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A WRITING CHECKLIST

How to improve your (or your partner's) written work.


First check: Does the content in the text make sense?
* Is the information organized clearly and logically?
* Is the information sufficient?
Elaborate enough?
Interesting?
Relevant to the topic?
Coherent?
* Is the information redundant or irrelevant? Too detailed and
elaborate?
Second check: Is the text adequately organized? Text and
paragraphs
* Do you need a title, headings or subheadings?
* Have you considered an adequate organization into
paragraphs?
- Introduction:
- Body paragraphs:
Is there a topic sentence followed by supporting
ideas?
Do topic sentences of body paragraphs support main idea
of the
introduction?
- Conclusion: Does it connect to the main idea of the
introduction?
* Is there coherence & cohesion?
Logical order of ideas: Order of importance /
chronological order
* Is the lay-out ( spacing, indents, ) adequate to the text genre?
(letter / proposal / application letter / film review / academic text /
etc.)
Third check: Expression and formulation. Sentence.
* Vocabulary: Is it adequate for the situation and the addressee
formality/informality)?
Is it precise enough? Is it correctly spellt?
* Grammar: Is it correct?
Subject/verb agreement (It bother
you).
Word order (The leather old case)
(Will come you?)
Use of articles: (I like the music.)
* Cohesion: Grammatical links between sentences:
Pronouns, connectives, parallel forms
* Punctuation. Periods after sentences. Semicolons.
Run-on sentences
Sentence fragments. Dependent clauses

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