Revising and Editing
Revise vs Edit
ARMS
You don’t
necessarily
have to read
the passage to
edit
You are not
reading for
comprehension
so it doesn’t
matter what
the passage is
about.
CUPS
Capitalization:
- Proper Nouns (Names, Places)
- Titles
- Months
-I
Usage:
- subject/verb agreement
Punctuation:
periods
exclamation points
quotes
semi-colon
question marks
commas
colon
Spelling:
check all words – use the dictionary
Remember, you don’t necessarily
have to read the passage to
revise
Understand that you are not
reading for comprehension.
“I don’t care what the passage is
about.”
When revising you might need to
read the sentence before and the
sentence after to understand the
context