CUPS

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