Revising and Editing

What are you doing when you correct punctuation errors

• Revising

• Editing

• Drafting

What are you doing when you improve the organization of the topics in your essay?

• Revising

• Editing

• Drafting

• Publishing

What are you doing when you add introductions and explanations to your quotations?

• Revising

• Editing

• Drafting

• Publishing

Which of these will be the last thing you do before submitting your essay?

• Revising

• Editing

• Drafting

• Publishing

When is the best time to reach out to the writing center?

• AS soon as you finish your first draft

• Just before you are ready to submit

• When you have tried everything and are stuck not understanding what to do next.

• Before you get an assignment.

Which of these stages probably last longer?

• Revising

• Editing

Select initial EDITS that could be made to this sentence.

There is more than one right answer.

The statue stands in the new Yourk harbor and its old

• New York is spelled wrong and needs to be capitalized.

• Add the name of the statue to add detail to the sentence.

• The word "its" should be the contraction "it's"

• It needs a period

• It needs to tell exactly how old it is.

Select the most thorough revision of our original sentence.

The statue stands in the New York harbor and it's old.

Be ready to explain your answer.

• The statue stands in the New York harbor and it's very old.

• The Statue of Liberty has been standing tall in the New York harbor for more than 130 years.

• The statue has been standing in the New York harbor for a long time.

• The Statue of Liberty has been in the New York harbor for a long time.

If you choose to use Grammarly, which of the following stages of the writing process will it help you with?

• It will help with revising, but I still need to edit.

• It will help with editing, but I still need to revise.

Which of these steps is NOT part of the revision process?

• Allow for extra time to rethink your purpose and message.

• Check your citations and formatting.

• Reread the assignment directions and rubric.

• Focus on big picture aspects like thesis, paragraph structure, and organization.