Thursday, July 22, 2010

Editing Tips

  1. Sentence openings (esp It/There)
  2. Capital letters/end punctuation
  3. Signal phrases
  4. Spelling—Spell check.
    its/it's
    there/they're/their
    to/too/two
    Proper names: Friedman, for ex.
  5. Verbs of Being: am, is, are, was, were, have, has, had, be, being, been
  6. Use a ruler
  7. Read backwards
  8. Read aloud

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