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