Self Editing for Second Paper

Class,
Below are some methods to use and things to look for as you edit your final draft of your second paper. We’ll also do some self-editing in class on Friday morning.

Self Editing for Second Paper


Read your paper line for line backwards looking for typos and errors in spelling, punctuation and other areas.

Read your paper out loud looking for clarity, word form and other issues.

Have a friend, relative or significant other read your paper and alert you to any clarity, argument or other issues.

Look over your MLA format including:

--Doublespacing throughout
--All 12 point New Times Roman font used
--No boldface font used in title or other places
--No words in all capitals used in title or other places (unless
you’re using an acronym)
--Name, class, date etc. information listed correctly (use paper due date for
date)
--Works Cited page included
--Hanging indentations used for entries on Works Cited page
--Works Cited page entries alphabetized

Check that your title is an interesting one and revise it if necessary

Look for common misspellings with homophones such as to/too/two and
their/there/they’re. See pages 299-300 of A Writer’s Reference for additional examples.

Look up any words in your paper that you’re unsure that you’re using correctly.

Revise for parallelism (pages 93-94 in A Writer’s Reference) and for sentence
fragments (page 204-209 in A Writer’s Reference) as we did in class for Paper One.