Editing Your Essay with CUPS Strategy

Please stop here to check your essay for CAPITALIZATION. 

When done, confirm below by giving ONE example of a word you needed to capitalize or had already capitalized (because you found no mistakes).

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Stop watching the video for a moment, and please look at your essay for your verb USAGE.  

When done, confirm that you checked USAGE based on the information on this video screen by giving ONE example of a change you made or by giving a description of the type of mistake you were looking for in your writing.

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Please stop the video for a moment and refer back to your essay.  Check PUNCTUATION based on the examples on this video screen.

One important area she didn't mention was End Punctuation.  Check that every sentence has a period (.), question mark (?), or exclamation mark (!).  If you don't have many periods, you probably need to reread to find where each thought ends and put a period at the end of one thought and a capital letter at the beginning of the next sentence. Also, check that you have periods AFTER the parenthetical citations.

When done, confirm that you checked your essay for proper PUNCTUATION by giving ONE  example of a correction you made or by describing the type of mistake you were looking for if all was correct.

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Once again, please refer back to your essay to check for SPELLING. Be sure to have your Google Doc tools for spelling and grammar on. Have someone you know help you edit by reading over your essay because some spelling mistakes are difficult to find.

Confirm you have checked your essay's spelling by writing down any words you fixed or by telling me you checked that Google Doc spelling and grammar check is on (You should see spelling errors underlined in red).

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