The first thing you want to do when revising is to look at your content at three levels: sentence-level, paragraph-level, and at the essay-level.
Revising at the Sentence-level
Revising at the sentence-level involves reading the sentences of your writing for completeness, clarity, and purpose. Do not read the sentences one after another. If you read them as blocks of content, you will miss revision issues to correct. You want to read a sentence—by itself—without connecting it to the sentence prior or after.
- Read the sentence and determine if it is a complete thought.
- Decide if the pronouns used in it make the overall idea too vague.
- Do you need to reword some of the sentences so that the focus and purpose are clearer?
Often, students do not properly transition ideas from one sentence to the next, and this creates confusion for the audience through vague pronoun usage and incomplete thoughts creating fragments and/or run-on sentences.
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