Effective Paper Revision Tips for Improved Grades

1. Errors From Hunger Games Projects Revising your Paper for a higher Grade Winarski

2. Don’t Use Contractions “Can’t” use Cannot Don’t use do not Isn’t use is not It’s use it is Too informal; you need to create a more formal paper. Use formal language. The only place you can use contractions is in the letter and in poetry. However, in the paragraphs explaining your poetry and the letter, you cannot use contractions. For your essay—no contractions; for the paragraphs explaining songs—no paragraphs.

3. Don’t use “you” Instead of using “you” use: a person the reader the/ a tribute the audience gamemakers

4. Quotation Usage To quote narrative text out of the book (not someone speaking, just plain ole prose), you only have to use the double set of “quotations”. However, if you quote dialoge, when someone is speaking, then you must use the “double quotation marks on the outside and the ‘single quotations on the words actually spoken by the character’ then end with the double again.”

5. *Using “/” with songs When you are using lyrics from songs, you need to use a / (slash mark) to show where each line of the song ends.

6. Use specific words; use a thesaurus; Overused words Like That It Also Nice Bad Good Got say

7. No Cliches please “freak out” “to find himself”