Editing Skills
Develop strategies for reviewing and improving your own writing, including checking punctuation, word choice, and clarity.
What You Need to Know
Key Concept Diagram
Editing means re-reading your work to find and fix errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Proofreading checks for surface errors; revising improves ideas, structure, and word choice.
Read your work aloud to notice where sentences feel awkward or unclear.
An editing checklist helps you remember what to look for each time.
Key Vocabulary
editing
The process of reviewing and improving a piece of writing.
proofreading
Reading carefully to spot errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
revising
Making changes to improve the ideas, structure, and language of a draft.
checklist
A list of items to check, used to make sure nothing is missed.
Knowledge Check
Select the correct answer for each question. Click "Check Answer" to see if you are right.
Question 1
Which step involves improving ideas and structure in a piece of writing?
Question 2
What is a helpful strategy to notice awkward sentences?
Question 3
Which type of error would you find during proofreading?
Key Concepts Summary
- ●Editing means re-reading your work to find and fix errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
- ●Proofreading checks for surface errors; revising improves ideas, structure, and word choice.
- ●Read your work aloud to notice where sentences feel awkward or unclear.
- ●An editing checklist helps you remember what to look for each time.