Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What do I edit in my
final piece of writing?
Anmerkungen:
- Adapted from Successful Academic Writing by Gillett, A. et al (2009)
- Structure
- Internal
- Is there logic to my writing?
- Are my paragraphs linked together?
- Are my ideas developed fully in paragraphs?
- Does my text jump from one idea to another?
- Relevance
- Have I answered all questions in the instruction?
- Have I used the right format? I.e. Is it evident that I have written a letter/article/etc.?
- Is everything that I have written relevant to the topic?
- Communication
- Is the language appropriate?
- Contractions (e.g. hasn't, I'm)
- Colloquial speech (e.g. 'thingy', 'telly')
- Unfinished sentences
- Repetition of words and phrases
- Is the grammar correct?
- Correct tense
- Irregular verbs
- Subject-Verb-Object
- Subject- verb agreement
- Complex and compound sentences
- Is punctuation correct?
- Full stops (.) at the end of the sentence and NOT in the middle
- Commas (,) separate parts of sentences
- Apostrophe (') used correctly
- Capital letters used correctly
- Is my spelling correct?
- adress or address?
- Typos (e.g. min, instead of mine)
- Economy
- Have I written too much/too little?