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Revising

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Editing

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What changed?

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Before

After

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A. R. M. S. (for Revising)

  • Add New information, better details, descriptive adjectives and adverbs, figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification etc.)
  • Remove Unnecessary repetitions or details, unimportant or irrelevant information, parts that might belong in another piece of writing
  • Move To flow better, so details support main ideas, for a more logical order
  • Substitute Overused words, weak verbs with strong verbs, weak adjectives with strong adjectives, common nouns with proper nouns, sentences that are unclear

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C. U. P. S. (for editing)

  • Capitalize names, places, titles, months, etc.
  • Usage: nouns and verbs are correctly used and conjugated (plural vs singular, past tense vs present tense)
  • Punctuation: commas, apostrophes, periods, quotes etc. are correctly used when needed
  • Spelling: check all words, look for homophones, check a dictionary

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Only the title is centered

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Color-Coding

In your introduction paragraph:

  • Make your thesis red

For each body paragraph:

  • Topic Sentence is blue (The first reason why…)
  • Evidence is green
  • Paraphrase is orange
  • Analyze is red
  • Concluding sentence is blue