{"id":90,"date":"2020-02-25T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/advancedenglish\/chapter\/editing\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:45:42","slug":"editing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/advancedenglish\/chapter\/editing\/","title":{"raw":"Editing and Proofreading: Lower Order Concerns","rendered":"Editing and Proofreading: Lower Order Concerns"},"content":{"raw":"Perhaps you are someone who edits and proofreads while you write a draft, so when you are done drafting and revising for content and structure, you may not have that much editing or proofreading to do. Or maybe you are a person who pays no attention to grammar and spelling as you draft, saving all of the editing until you are finished writing. Either way, for academic assignments (and professional work), plan to carefully edit and proofread your work.\r\n
Tip: For most people, editing and proofreading on a printed copy is more effective than working entirely on screen. Print out a version of your assignment and use a pen, pencil, highlighter, or even coloured pencils to make notes all over your draft. As you input the changes into your word processor, cross off your notations.<\/div>\r\n
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Pro Tip: When you meet with your instructor to get help before an assignment is due, when you receive feedback on a work in progress, or even if you have an opportunity to improve your grade through revisions and resubmission, do the same technique of crossing off notations from the instructor as you input them into your word processor.<\/div>\r\nEditing is the act of making changes at a moderate level of organization, or indicating what to change; proofreading means a detailed level of error and checking to make sure that changes discovered earlier were made. When you are working on improving the grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other formal aspects of your writing, instructors usually refer to that task as editing or proofreading, not revising.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nUse a checklist to ensure you are catching errors and actually fixing them. You may have seen examples of editing checklists. One type of checklist is a general list of common errors that writers often make; another type is a checklist based on an assignment; and a third type is a checklist you make yourself that tracks the kinds of errors you make most often.\r\n

Proofreading<\/h1>\r\nProofreading is the final and most detailed step in the revision process. There is no point in making sure that you don't have an extra space between two sentences (proofreading) when you don't have a thesis statement (revision) or correct sentence structure (editing). Using a system can ensure you\u2019ve made all the corrections necessary.\r\n

Using a System<\/h2>\r\n