REVISION CHECKLIST
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Directions: Use the checklist below to examine your article. As you work on the checklist, or after completing it, use your responses to revise the draft of your article.
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Does the article have an interesting and attention-getting headline that accurately reflects the information in the article?
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Does the article contain a lead that grabs the reader’s attention?
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Does the article follow the inverted-pyramid style with the most important information mentioned first leading into the least important information?
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Highlight the topic sentence in each paragraph. Do all the sentences in each paragraph develop the idea expressed in the topic sentence?
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Is the article broken into appropriate paragraphs that use effective transitions from the end of one paragraph to the beginning of the next?
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Does the concluding paragraph tie everything together, including a closing sentence that summarizes or elaborates on ideas in the article.
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Are there a variety of sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) and lengths within each paragraph?
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Are there a variety of words and phrases within each paragraph? (The same words or phrases should not be repeated within the same paragraph.)
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Are there a lot of action verbs in the sentences? Minimize using some forms of “be” (is, am, are, was, were). Highlight the action verbs.
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Does your writing demonstrate an understanding of the grammatical conventions of the English language?
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HAVE YOU USED:
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correct spelling?
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correct punctuation?
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correct capitalization?
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all eight parts of speech correctly?
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clauses, phrases and modifiers correctly?
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HAVE YOU ELIMINATED:
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sentence fragments or run-on sentences?
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slang or informal language?
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