ENG333 Week 10 Proofreading and Editing

1. ENG333 Week 10
EDITING AND
PROOFREADING
DR. RUSSELL RODRIGO

2. Letter of resignation
You know why I want to resign?
Since I worked for you, my money is not enough to use. When my
money not enough to use, I become unhappy, When I become
unhappy, I will eat a lot, When I eat a lot, I will get fat. When I get fat. It
will affect your company’s image. When you company’s image is
affected, your Business not good. When you business not good, you
become unhappy, when you become Unhappy, you will eat a a lot, I’m
afraid you will become fat, like me.
You see, sir it’s a vicious cycled I did everything for your won good,
because I care for you, sir. So the conclusion is I want to resign. Please
let me go lah….
Thank you.

3. Editing vs
Proofreading

4. Some handy hints:

6. 1. Re-read
 Your assignment sheet
 Your criteria sheet
 Other information required
2. Check that you have specifically answered the
question and completed all aspects of the task. Eg
evidence statements, sourcing, bibliography.
First Steps in EDITING AND
PROOFREADING

8. DON’T FORGET PEEL!

9. DISCUSSION &
CONCLUSION

11. Locate the run-on and comma splice sentences in the following
paragraphs. Mark them by writing RO or CS above them. Then, on a
separate piece of paper, rewrite both paragraphs, correcting the mistakes
you found. (10 marks)
Teachers at Stone Mountain College give higher grades than teachers at twelve
of the nineteen other colleges in the state college system, according to a recent
report from the state Institutional Research Committeee. This report showed that more
than one-third of the undergraduate grades awarded in the spring semester, 2014,
were F’s only, only 1.1 percent were F’s. The percentage of A’s awarded to graduate
students was even higher, almost two-thirds were A’s.
While students may be happy to receive high grades, there is evidence that this
trend is having negative consequences. Investigation of the admissions criteria of
these schools are discounting high grades on the transcripts of SMSC students, this
means that an A from SMSC is not equal to an A from other universities. Grade
inflation may, therefore, hurt a student from Stone Mountain College who intends to
apply a graduate or professional school, he or she may not be accepted despite a
high grade point average.

12. Grade Inflation

14.  Low Modality statements are conclusions that are not
absolute and therefore are not as easy to disprove.
 Low modality statements tend to use words such as ‘it may
be…’, ‘it indicates that…’, ‘it could be concluded that…’
EG. “Today everyone uses their credit card for all their
shopping”. OR
 “Many people in society use credit cards for much of their
shopping”
USE OF MODALITY

16. MOST IMPORTANTLY…
 Do not be afraid to read your assignment out
loud. If it doesn’t sound right, then it probably isn’t.
 Even in exam conditions, you should read your
essay to yourself. You do not need to read it
aloud, however you should actually mouth each
word.

17. Questions:
 Do my sentences contain only one idea? Are they
too long and complicated?
 A sentence should only have one point.
 Try not to have a sentence that runs for more than
two or three lines. If it is too long, divide it into more
than one sentence.
SENTENCE TYPES

21. Avoid the following:
 Comma splices
 Fragments
 Run On sentences

22. AND
REMEMBER…
    
Get it?
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(Proofread and
check spelling
here)

23. Practice: Identify the mistakes in this
document
with the invention of the personal computer and the Internet, a new age in
communications begins. now people could communicate fastest and more easily than
ever before. Writing, editing, and storing information became quick and easy. It was
no longest necessary to write draft after draft when changes could be made so easily
using a word Processor program. Messages, could now be sent in no time to anywhere
in the world, without addressing envelopes or licking stamps.
Century most early, around the year 1450 a similar revolution in communications had
occurred in Germany. This happened when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing
press. Gutenberg was not the first person to use printing to copy a peace of writing.
printing was already being invented in China, where they used clay to print oriental
characters. Small items, such as posters and flyers, were already being printed in
Europe too, using the woodblock method of printing. Books and other largest works,
however, were still being copied by hand. At this time, books were usually produced
only in latin, and only the most educated people read them. Gutenbergs' printing press
was about to change all of this.

24. Key Answer

25. SOURCE:
 http://studywell.library.qut.edu.au/ppoint_files/WRITING_Editinga
ndProofreading.pdf