Editing

This graphic will encourage students to use stronger descriptors. It uses an approach of "Instead of ___ use ___."

Students search for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors in a work sheet about famous African-Americans. Designed for grades 3-8.

Students examine the writing of short-story author Raymond Carver as well as their own writing to explore how editing can affect the text, content and context of an author's work.

Andy Bechtel teaches editing and writing at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. His blog explores issues related to newspaper copy editing.

This handout explains the Paramedic Method and provides 3 sample sentences and revisions.

Words of wisdom from Bill Walsh, an editor who still cares about precise language. Check this site often.

Students will learn to edit their writing by replacing phrases using common intensifiers such as very and really with more precise language. Student partners will use the Visual Thesaurus to revise "intensifier-heavy" dialogues to become more concise and effective.