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Capitalization Overall Appearance
Have I capitalized: Is my text well-organized?
- The first letter of the - Is my handwriting
first word of each spaced correctly and is
sentence? it legible?
- Proper nouns, such as - Is my paper neat,
the names of people without rips or
and places? smudges?
- Titles? - Have I used
- Months and days of the paragraphs?
week? - Have I used complete
- Holidays? sentences?
- Organizations? - Does my text make
- Nationalities? sense?
- Historical Events? - If I’m unsure of
something, have I asked
for help?
Punctuation Spelling
Is the punctuation correct? Did I spell everything correctly?
- Did I put a period, - If I don’t know the
question mark or correct spelling, did I
exclamation mark at use spellcheck, a
the end of each dictionary or ask for
sentence? help?
- Have I used commas Did I use the correct spelling of
correctly? homonyms, such as:
- Have I used quotation - to/too/two
marks? - they’re/their/there
- Have I used - its/it’s
apostrophes to show - been/bean
either possession or - close/clothes
omission of letters or - deer/dear
numbers, such as
“can’t”?