Revision and editing pages

Edit Edit Edit

One of the biggest mistakes we make as writers is we do not edit ourselves or ask someone else to review our work. Simple spelling errors such as red or read can change how your essay is received. Spellcheck will not catch this type of error so careful purposeful reading is necessary.

Do not let a simple mistake that could be caught and fixed in a few moments cost you a valuable scholarship. This is a competitive field, and the average scholarship has 100 times the applications than awards. Larger corporate and school-based scholarships have even more. Make yours the best-that takes time and effort, but you can do it.

Editor is a tool in Microsoft Word. It will check more than spelling. It helps with tenses and conciseness as well as clarity. Utilize every tool you have available before you submit your essay!

Learning Activity seven:

Go through these simple sentences and make the correct word choice. Highlight the error and rewrite:

1. I am a accomplished student who loved studying.

2. She liked school and never go.

3. Harry red her book to me on yesterdays class

4. My parent, who are hard workers, making little sacrifices ever day.

5. One factors in mine skool choices is classrooms sized.

These are obvious errors but when we are writing sometimes our passion takes over our typing. Little errors can place your paper on the wrong stack.