Editing your work for A Monster Within
I can edit, revise and rewrite my work.
Editing your work for A Monster Within
I can edit, revise and rewrite my work.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Editing is the process of making technical corrections to a piece of writing.
- Accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar is essential to help your reader understand your writing.
- Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
- Using a variety of sentence starters is important because it can influence the pace, emphasis or cohesion of a sentence.
- You can vary your sentence starters by using adjectives, verbs or adverbs.
Common misconception
Students often think that once they have written their first draft, the piece is finished.
Writing is a process that involves several drafts of the same piece. Each time, editing and rewriting the draft makes the piece of writing better.
Keywords
To edit - to make technical corrections to a piece of writing
To revise - to review a piece of work and identify where it can be improved
Draft - a version of a piece of writing
To rewrite - the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words
To enhance - to improve the quality or clarity of something
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of upsetting content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Video
Loading...