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Editing Check List: Author: Crishton

This document provides a checklist for editing writing for mechanics, grammar, and style. The mechanics section ensures proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. The grammar section checks for complete sentences, subject-verb agreement, and clear pronoun references. Finally, the style section recommends varying sentence lengths, precise word choices tailored to the audience, and removing unnecessary words.

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Editing Check List: Author: Crishton

This document provides a checklist for editing writing for mechanics, grammar, and style. The mechanics section ensures proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. The grammar section checks for complete sentences, subject-verb agreement, and clear pronoun references. Finally, the style section recommends varying sentence lengths, precise word choices tailored to the audience, and removing unnecessary words.

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Author: Crishton

Editing
Check List

Mechanics
I capitalized the first word in every
sentence.
I capitalized all proper nouns. (Places,
People, and Titles)
Each sentences I wrote ends with a
period, a question mark or a
exclamation point.
I used punctuation correctly
(commas, apostrophes, quotes, etc.).
I spelled all words correctly.
I indented the beginning of each new
paragraph

Grammar
There are no sentence fragments
in my work.

There are no run-on sentences


that should be two separate
sentences
Subjects and verbs agree in
number (singular subject,
singular verb;
plural subject,
plural verb)
When I use pronouns, they clearly
refer to someone or something.
(Who is she? Who is he?)
I use the same verb tenses (past,
present, future) across my
writing.

Style
I use different lengths of
sentences. Some are long, some
are short, and some are medium

in length.
I chose clear, interesting, colorful,
precise words and made sure
that they were a good fit for my
audience.
I dont use the same
word/phrases repeatedly.
I cut out any un-needed words,
keeping my sentences as clear
as
possible

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