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Strategies & Checklists

Revise

1.examine and improve or amend

2. reconsider and alter

Strategy

a plan designed to achieve a particular long-term aim

Short Checklist for Revision (Peabody Institute Word Document)

Very thoughtful guide for analysing your papers, though it may be overwhelming. It emphasizes tracing your argument clearly and making sure every paragraph, every sentence, every word is exactly where it should be to best serve your essay.

Strategy & Checklist Links

• Steps in Editing Your Papers (Purdue OWL)

  This is higher level, more about an overall approach to take, rather than individual items to check off. Instead, this aims to help you develop your own customized checklist.

• Strategies for Revision and Editing (Purdue OWL)

  This at first looks like only a link to other (also good) sites on proofreading, but if you scrolldown, you see this covers in depth strategies for working on both larger issues and sentence-level issues.

• Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity (Purdue OWL)

  If your sentences are tangled, this can help you identify your trouble spots (oddly placed clauses, non-parallel construction, strings of nouns, etc.)

• What to Strive For or Avoid (McDaniel College)

  A good list of things that you should be working on with your paper that will lead to personal satisfaction with the experience, as well asa good paper.

• Short Checklist for Revision (Peabody Institute)

  Short but very thoughtful -- good for higher level writers.

• Proofreading Self Checklist (written by MICA's Carole Poppleton)

  Questionaire for looking at your own work.

• Critical Inquiry Formal Paper (written by MICA's Soheila Ghaussy)

  Questionaire for looking at your own 3-pagers (formal essays) in Critical Inquiry.

• Editing vs. Proofreading (University of North Carolina)

  Actually, one should always do both, but this link makes it very clear when to do each. It also has some very precise tactics.

Peer Editing

Peer

a person of the same age, status, or ability as another specified person.

Peer Editing Links

• Peer Editing Guide (University of Richmond)
  

  This can help you make thoughtful comments when you're critiquing another student's writing.

• Dos and Don'ts for Writing Commentary (University of Richmond)
  

  Advice for commenting on others' papers.

• Peer Response Questionaires (written by MICA's Carole Poppleton)
  

  Questionaires for looking at peers' work - a single paragraph, a rough draft, or a paper referring to a story/novel/et cetera.

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