Instructions: Copy and paste the following text into a document or create a document that contains the same information.
Using your essay in response to the unit’s writing prompt, complete the following steps to improve your essay.
Essay With Revisions
1. Insert your entire essay here. Include any revisions your instructor asked you to make.
2. Grammar
3. Check your essay for grammatical errors. Highlight or underline any parts of your essay that should be corrected.
4. Look for incorrect uses of “who” and “whom.”
5. Look for incorrect uses of “affect” and effect.”
6. Look for sentences that are not using proper parallel structure.
7. Correct the grammatical errors you identified and place your revised essay here.
8. Transitions
9. In your revised essay above, highlight the transitions you used. Based on your highlighting, what can you do to improve your transitions? Do you need to: include transitions, use more advanced transitions, or revise some of your transitions in different ways?
Explain here how you will improve your essay by revising your transitions.
10. Use the transition sheet to help you revise your transitions.
11. Conclusion
12. Copy and paste your concluding paragraph below.
13. Review your concluding paragraph:
14. Highlight the transition you used to signal closure?
15. Underline where you have synthesized or summarized your main points and their significance?
16. Bold what you have done to challenge your readers.
17. Review your marked concluding paragraph. Revise your conclusion to make it stronger and place the revision here.
18. Final Read Through – Final Draft
19. Copy and paste your final draft here, including your newly revised conclusion paragraph. Be sure to include the works cited portion. Read your essay out loud once more to find any last errors to correct.
