Revising And Editing Practice. Both are very important elements of the writing process. It is a book for people who want to learn the editorial skills needed to revise a piece of writing without doing a lot of busy work.
Below I've listed how Celebrity Tweets can be used for revising and editing practice in the middle and high school grade levels. Each file has a short paragraph on it. The purpose or revision is to ask questions, expanding ideas and challenging arguments which require discussion between the writer and the reader. is non.
Everyone gets a copy of the week's tweet and makes their edits individually, writing a reason for the edits.
On these worksheets, students must choose.
Changes are then made to meet some standard of quality. Their eating way to much food but its free. To give you a chance to practice proofreading, we have left seven errors (three spelling errors, two punctuation errors, and two grammatical errors) in the text of this handout.