Editing
Once you have revised your writing, elaborated, cut, added
important details for support, changed the arrangement, you will
want to achieve a final polish.
Consider These Suggestions:
- Read your work, sentence by sentence, from back to front.
- Have a friend read your work out loud just as you have written
it.
- Print your work triple-spaced or in a large font so you can
catch any errors.
- Use spell and grammar checks on your computer.
Common Usage Errors
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Affect/Effect
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Affect is usually a verb meaning "to
influence." Effect is a noun meaning
"result."
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Could of
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Could of is nonstandard for could
have.
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Its/it's
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Its is the possessive pronoun.
It's is a contraction for it
is.
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Quote/Quotation
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Quote is a verb; quotation is
a noun.
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Than/then
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Than is a conjunction used for comparison;
then is an adverb denoting time.
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There/their/they're
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There is an adverb specifying place;
their indicates possessive;
they're is a contraction for they
are.
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Who/that
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Use who to refer to persons,
that to refer to things.
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Would of
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Would of is nonstandard for would
have.
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Your/you're
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Your is a possessive pronoun;
you're is a contraction for you
are.
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