Editing a narrative

What is the focus of editing strategies?

• Eliminating spelling errors

• Assessing clarity, style, and citations

• Checking for sentence-level elements

• Finding and correcting typos

What should you do to make a text more readable when you find a sentence with too many prepositions?

• Reduce the number of prepositions

• Add more details

• Change the topic

• Increase the sentence length

What is the last step in the writing process according to the text?

• Revising

• Proofreading

• Drafting

• Editing

Which of the following is a suggested proofreading strategy?

• Revise the sentence to have a clearer subject and verb

• Make passive voice active

• Read the text backwards

• Combine two consecutive short sentences

How can you simplify a sentence's subject according to the editing strategies?

• By adding qualifiers

• By reducing the number of words before the verb

• By making it a verb

• By finding and using a cliché

What should you do if you find two words in your text that mean the same thing?

• Pick one to use instead

• Add more similar words for emphasis

• Leave them as they are for clarity

• Combine them into one word