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Revising, Proofreading and Evaluating: Owais Riaz
Revising, Proofreading and Evaluating: Owais Riaz
EVALUATING
OWAIS RIAZ
The Writing Process
Improving
Improvingcontent
contentand
and
sentence
sentencestructure
structure
Revising May
Mayinvolve
involveadding,
adding,
cutting,
cutting,and
andrecasting.
recasting.
Correcting
Correctinggrammar,
grammar,
Proofreading spelling,
spelling,punctuation,
punctuation,
format,
format,and
andmechanics
mechanics
Concise Wording
Look
Lookforforwords
wordsending
endinginin
Tip tion
tionor
orment.
ment.Could
Couldthey
they
be
bemore
moreefficiently
efficientlyand
and
forcefully
forcefullyconverted
convertedtotoverbs?
verbs?
Buried Verbs
Excessive Businesslike
The manager is actually The manager is
quite pleased with your pleased with your
proposal because the proposal because
plan is definitely the plan is workable.
workable.
Precise Words
Headings
Short paragraphs
Ragged-right margins
Designing Documents for
Readability
Spelling
Grammar
Punctuation