The document provides editing and proofreading tips for writing a report or story. It advises the reader to read over their draft slowly and make corrections with a red pen while checking for spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, tense and singular nouns. It also recommends leaving a blank line between paragraphs and ensuring the report is long enough without repetitive language. The tips are meant to help the writer produce a polished draft.

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4.  Read your draft over slowly and make corrections with a red pen.
 Check for spelling. If you are not sure how to spell a word, ask a teacher or
friend.
 Check for grammar: Periods, capital letters, commas, question and
exclamation marks.
 Make sure that proper nouns, each word in the title and all sentences start
with a CAPITAL letter!
 Check your tenses:
 Past tense verbs usually end with –ed. (eg. The cat
walked to the house.)
 Present tense verbs end with –ing and have the word ‘is’
before them. (eg. The cat is walking to the house.)
 Future tense verbs have words like ‘will’ or ‘should’
before them. (eg. The cat will walk to the house.)
 All singular nouns must have ‘a, an or the’ before them. (eg. the restaurant, a
boy, an orange etc.) **EXCEPT FOR PEOPLE’S NAMES**
 Leave one blank line between each paragraph.
 Make sure your report is long enough and that you don’t use the same
adjectives and adverbs more than once!
 Get a buddy to read your draft over again after you have made all your
corrections.