WRITING PROCESS 4: PROOF READING.
- PROOFREADING AND EDITING:
This phase of writing process, involves polishing your revised draft, proofreading it for errors in grammar, spelling, usage, punctuation, capitalization; afterwards, producing a clean copy of your writing/literary work.
CHECKLIST FOR PROOFREADING AND EDITING:
Questions to consider:
• Grammar and Usage
I) Have I used adjectives and adverbs properly?
II) Do all my sentences expresses only one complete thought?
III) Have I avoided sentence fragments?
IV) Do the verb I used agree with their subjects?
V) Do my sentences and paragraphs flow smoothly?
• Punctuation
I) Have I used colons, semicolons, commas, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, parentheses and quotation marks appropriately?
• Spelling
I) Have I checked to ascertain for the correct spelling of each word?
• Capitalization
I) Have I done proper capitalization according to the established standard?
• Manuscript Form
I) Have I double spaced my manuscript?
II) Have I written my name and done proper pagination of my manuscript?
III) Is my manuscript clean and legible?
Good teaching, thanks for posting it!
You are welcome. Thanks for the great encouragement 🙏❤️.