ENG 21011 Chapter 1: Editing Checklist for all Essays

• School: Kent State University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 21011
• Professor: Molly J Fuller Reynolds

Document Summary

This checklist can help guide your editing process. It lists the major items to look for as you edit your essay. Sentence level concerns: correcting sentence fragments, correcting run-on sentences and comma splices. Verbs: correcting subject-verb agreement errors, correcting verb tense-shift errors, eliminating contractions. Capitalization: correct capitalization: first word of a sentence, essay and book titles and authors" names. Nouns: spelling plural nouns correctly, nouns as subjects and objects, using apostrophes with possessive nouns. Pronouns: correcting pronoun reference and pronoun agreement errors, correcting subject and object pronoun errors, using relative pronouns correctly (who, which and that) Modifiers: misplaced and dangling modifiers style, using language appropriate to the task. Punctuation: using punctuation to end sentences, using commas after introductory phrases and clauses and with coordinating conjunction connecting two independent clauses, punctuating quotations correctly (according to mla criteria)