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REVISION Strategies

REVISION Strategies. The Writing Process. Reading Prewriting Drafting Revising Editing. The Writing Process. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= V1pnpL8295E. Why Revise your Writing?. To check for fluency To create a paper that is error-free and understandable

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REVISION Strategies

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  1. REVISION Strategies

  2. The Writing Process • Reading • Prewriting • Drafting • Revising • Editing

  3. The Writing Process • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pnpL8295E

  4. Why Revise your Writing? • To check for fluency • To create a paper that is error-free and understandable • Writing is about communicating: Revision is a time to ask yourself: Did you communicate your ideas effectively? Can others understand what you wrote?

  5. Peer Revision Process Use Editing Symbols to identify corrections needed. 1. Spelling • Circle all words that are not spelled correctly 2. Grammar • Are all sentences complete? No fragments? • Remember all complete sentences have a subject and a verb. They have a complete thought. • Are all proper names (Titles, Names, Places) capitalized? • Are only personal pronouns used in the hook or call-to-action sentences?

  6. Commas How to use commas correctly: • In a series • Example: School lunches should be healthy, affordable, and delicious. • With opening element: When a sentence begins with an opener-a phrase, clause, transition or prepositional phrase (At home; In time, By now you know, etc.) -writers place a comma after the opener to organize ideas for the readers to help them understand the message. • Example: In 2000, researchers found that most school lunches included high amounts of sugar in most of packaged food items.

  7. Commas Cont. • With closing element: Closers allow writers to add interesting information to sentences. When you add a closer to an independent clause, we use a comma to set it off from the rest of the sentence. • Example: Unhealthy school lunches create many adolescent health problems, such as malnutrition in the form of excessive consumption of unhealthy foods. • With conjunctions in compound sentences: Conjunctions are FANBOYS (for, and, not, but, or, yet, and so). For compound sentences with conjunctions, add the comma before the conjunction. • Example: School lunches must meet Federal nutrition requirements over the course of one week's worth of lunches served, but decisions about what specific foods to serve and how they are prepared are made by local school food authorities.

  8. Commas Cont. • With non-restrictive elements: A non-restrictive element can add more detail and description to your writing. When you add a non-restrictive element, set it off with commas. • Example: New food items, whole-wheat breads and low-fat milk, have been included in some school lunch programs.

  9. Quotations • Always integrate your quotes into a sentence. • DO NOT DO: “The set lunch that cost $2.50 last year will now cost $2.60.” • DO: School lunch costs have risen from “$2.50 last year [and this year they] will now cost $2.60” (Yee 2).

  10. Banned Words • Good • Bad • Things • Stuff • Nice • Great • Kind of/Sort of

  11. Component of a Persuasive Essay Introduction incudes: Hook sentence (1st) Background information (2-3 sentences) Detailed thesis statement including three arguments (last sentence of paragraph) Three body paragraphs include: Topic Sentence (1st) – introducing argument Evidence (cited correctly) Explanation of evidence Concluding sentence - a restatement of topic sentence (last) Conclusionincludes: Restatement of thesis Summary of arguments Call-to-action (last)

  12. DIRECTIONS • Writer & Peer Reviewer will exchange papers. Put both names on each paper Peer Revision Form. • Thoughtfully make revisions- use Peer Revision Form • Mark revisions on writer’s paper directly – Use a redpen! • Remember, you are helping to improve quality of writing, not dispute their argument. • Include at least one compliment on the Peer Revision Form • Share your comments with each other. This document will be turned in when you are finished. • Be helpful and respectful with your comments!

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