Editing Checklist III: Peer Editing
Author _____________________________ Peer Editor _____________________________ Date ________________
We have reviewed this work to check for:
Spelling
q Three words we corrected: ____________, ____________, ____________.
q We checked the tricky word list, including homophones.
q We checked to be sure there was a vowel in every syllable.
q Resources we used to correct spelling include: __________________.
Capitalization
q Beginning of sentence
q Names and proper nouns (English muffin)
q Titles
q A word all in caps for emphasis
punCtuation
q End of sentence ( . ? !)
q Apostrophe for possessive (Anna’s bike)
q Sentence opener followed by a comma
q Compound sentence joined by a linking word and a comma
q Exclamation point for interjection
q Items in a series are separated by commas
SentenCeS
(Who/what did something? What did they do?)
q This piece is free of fragments.
q This piece has no run-on sentences. The word and is used with caution.
SoMe intereSting SentenCeS
The most interesting sentence in this piece is
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We think this sentence is strong because
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