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Revising & Editing Academic Writing

Revising & Editing Academic Writing. Revising. Real revision is more than making a few minor adjustments. It requires being open to the idea that parts of your paper (and sometimes the entire paper) might need to be re-thought and re-written. . Remember:.

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Revising & Editing Academic Writing

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  1. Revising & Editing Academic Writing

  2. Revising Real revision is more than making a few minor adjustments. It requires being open to the idea that parts of your paper (and sometimes the entire paper) might need to be re-thought and re-written.

  3. Remember: • You do NOT work best under pressure. • You are NOT the most brilliant the first time around. • Your paper is NOT perfect the way it is. • Sometimes you must kill your darlings.

  4. The basics:

  5. Dealing with the Big Picture

  6. Paragraphs

  7. Editing & Proofreading Editing is the process of fixing minor problems related to style. Proofreading is the correction of mistakes in punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

  8. Tips:

  9. Parallelism:

  10. Common usage errors: • Accept/ except • Affect/effect • there/their/they’re • we’re, where/were • your/you’re • to/too/two • It/it’s

  11. Commas: • Indicate a pause is needed in a sentence. • Separate clauses, phrases, and items in a list.

  12. Where would you put the comma?

  13. The rule:

  14. Where would you put the comma?

  15. The rule:

  16. Where would you put the commas?

  17. The rule:

  18. How would you correct the following comma splice?

  19. The rule:

  20. Sources • Adapted from“Revising Drafts.” The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/revision.html • and “Conquering the Comma.” Purdue University Online Writing Lab. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/692/1/

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