Revision is a necessary step in the writing process. Students in E IV must revise every writing assignment. If a student earns an A on an essay, then (s)he does have the option of opting out on a revision. If students make all corrections as noted by the instructor, they will receive a full letter grade up as the revision grade.
Major Errors and Editing
Editing is the last part of the writing process—the most time-consuming task in the writing process, but also the easiest to do because it is a step-by-step process. Obviously, a good paper is more than just technical correctness, so the instructor cannot assure scoring an A on a paper just because no technical or surface errors exist. To edit their paper, students should use the following checklist:
· Missing comma after an introductory element
· Vague pronoun reference
· Missing comma in a compound sentence
· Wrong word
· Wrong or missing verb ending
· Wrong or missing preposition
· Comma splice
· Missing or misplaced possessive apostrophe
· Unnecessary shift in verb tense
· Unnecessary shift in pronoun
· Sentence fragment
· Wrong tense or verb form
· Lack of subject-verb agreement
· Missing comma in a series
· Lack of agreement between pronoun and antecedent
· Fused or run-on sentence
· Misplaced or dangling modifier
· Its/It’s confusion
· Wrong use of a semicolon or colon
· Spelling error
· Awkward or confusing sentence
· Apostrophe errors
· MLA citation or bibliography errors
· One inch margins—top, bottom, left, and right?
· Double-spaced document (including blocked quotations)
· Header (last name and page number inserted), top right corner
· Works Cited page, double-spaced and alphabetized
· Title of essay
