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Centre for Study Skills and Access
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Overview
• Once you have produced a first draft of your essay, you should:
• Look over (review) your work • Make amendments (edit) • Proofread the document
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Reviewing
• Read your work aloud - you may hear errors more easily than you see them
• Print your draft - use colours and pencil marks to identify the different kinds of changes you want to make (or use on-screen highlighting when word processing)
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Editing
• Check for irrelevant material
• Do any of your points need to be clarified?
• Are any of your sentences or paragraphs too long-winded?
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Editing
• Does every paragraph follow on logically from the one that preceeds it?
• Do any of your ideas need further development?
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Editing
• Do you want/need to add information?
• Do you want/need to add evidence or support?
• Does your writing ‘flow’? Do you need to use linking phrases?
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Editing
• Have you used punctuation correctly?
• Is it clear where your information came from by referencing appropriately?
• Have you checked your word count?
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Proof-reading
• Look out for errors in:
• Spelling
• Grammar
• Punctuation
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Activity
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Summary
• Make sure you give yourself enough time to edit, review and proofread your work
• Try to become aware of the errors that you tend to make
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Further reading
• COTTRELL, S. The study skills handbook. Second edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; 2003.
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Centre for Study Skills and Access
• Appointments available for writing skills development
• Phone 01224 263089• Or email [email protected]