Revise and Edit Review

​How do we revise and edit our responses?

• CUPS and ARMS!

• ​Both are acronyms (like RACES)

• ​CUPS -- Editing

• ​ARMS -- Revising

​Editing With CUPS

• ​This will help us find silly mistakes in our writing.

• ​When you go over CUPS, ask yourself if you checked for EVERY mistake in this image!

​Revising With ARMS

• ​This will help us ELEVATE our writing.

• ​When you go over ARMS, ask yourself if you checked for EVERY way to elevate your writing in this image!

Multiple Choice

The dessert has hot sand, cactus, and rocks everywhere. 
What change, if any, needs to be made to this sentence?

• delete the comma after cactus
• change everywhere to every  where
• change dessert to desert
• make no change

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to combine these two sentences into a complex sentence?

The Hubble Space Telescope has been important to astronomers.

It has provided valuable information about our solar system.

• The Hubble Space Telescope has been important to astronomers; however, it has provided valuable information about our solar system.

• The Hubble Space Telescope has been important to astronomers since it has provided valuable information about our solar system.

• The Hubble Space Telescope has been important to astronomers, and yet it has provided valuable information about our solar system.

• The Hubble Space Telescope has been important to astronomers because it has provided valuable information about our solar system.

Multiple Choice

Kinzie's heart sank when she realized the ring was lost, when it was a special gift from her grandmother.

• Kinzie's heart sank when she realized the ring was lost, and it was a special gift from her grandmother.

• Kinzie's heart sank when she realized the ring, a special gift from her grandmother, was lost

• The Ring, a special gift from her grandmother, made Kinzie's heart sink when she realized the ring was lost.

• Make no changes.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Comic inkers go over the lines after the artist draws in pencil.

• Comic inkers go over the lines, after the artist draws in pencil.

• Comic inkers go over the lines after; the artist draws in pencil.

• Comic inkers go over the lines the artist draws in pencil.

Multiple Choice

20 million people almost visit Disney World each year.
What is the correct way to write the sentence above? 

• 20 million people visit Disney World almost each year. 
• Almost 20 million people visit Disney World each year. 
• 20 million people visit Disney World each year, almost. 
• No change is needed

Multiple Choice

What strategies can be used to ensure the argument is clear and logical during the revision process?

• Ignore potential counterarguments

• Include irrelevant information

• Use emotional language

• Organize points logically, provide evidence, use clear language, avoid fallacies, address counterarguments

Multiple Choice

How can adding specific evidence strengthen an argumentative essay during the revision process?

• By using vague language instead of specific evidence

• By providing concrete support for the claims made in the essay.

• By excluding any evidence altogether

• By repeating the same information multiple times