answer questions

Your assignment: After reading the notes, reminders, and examples editing/revision checklists above, make a revision checklist for your own personal writing.

For this assignment, you will need to look back at all your writing from this class to see what you’ve been working on and what comments I’ve made for you. Look at your final drafts and revisions; check the notes and highlights I’ve made on your essay pages, as well as the final comments I submit to you on Canvas. Find out what your main writing strengths and goals are. Look specifically for the repeated errors that you make frequently, especially the ones we’ve studied in this class. Then, follow the format below to write your very own personalized revision checklist that you will need to use to edit/revise your research essay this week.

You will need to write a specific goal or writing/grammar rule that you would like to remember for revising your essay. Use your class notes, or the OWL Purdue website to look up rules that you need to study in order to improve your own writing!

MY EDITING/REVISION CHECKLIST

My top 3 strengths: (to make sure I continue to do well with these goals!)

1. ________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________________

My global concerns with content or organization (write a specific rule or goal that you are working on for at least 3 of the following areas):

Thesis Statement goal: __________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Evidence/Support goal: __________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Quotation Intro/Explanation goal: __________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Introduction/Conclusion goal: _____________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Paragraph/Structure goal: ________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Organization/Transitions goal: _____________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

My secondary concerns with grammar and editing (write a specific rule that you are working on for at least 5 of the following areas):

Rules for Avoiding Fragments: _____________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Rules for Avoiding Run-ons: ______________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Rules for Avoiding Tense Shifts: ___________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Rules for Avoiding Clutter: ________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Rules for Coordinating Conjunctions (For, And, Nor, Yet, So, But, Or): ______________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Subordinating Conjunctions (Because, When, Since, If, Even though, Unless): ______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Using Articles (a, an, the): ___________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Commas: ______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Quotation marks: ________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Semi-colons: ___________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Capitalization: __________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Subject/Verb Agreement: __________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Titles: _________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Rules for Plural Nouns vs. Non-count Nouns: __________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Other Grammar Rules: ___________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Other Grammar Rules: ___________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

My Other Writing Goals (write a specific rule or goal that you are working on for at least 2 of the following areas):

Avoid Plagiarizing: ______________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Works Cited Page: ______________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Citation Verbs/In-Text Citations: ____________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

MLA Format: __________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Count them up: You should have written at least 3 strengths that you have in your writing and 10 rules/goals that you will challenge yourself to get right as you edit/revise your research essay.