Writing 2101F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scientific Writing, Serial Comma, Proofreading
1 Feb 2017
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Steps in the process: revising, editing, proofreading, feedback. Major cause of writer"s block is desire for perfection: especially concern for low-order issues, must abandon this mentality. Having peer review can be helpful for advice. Feedback &leaving work for a bit are good techniques. Move to lower order aspects after addressing higher-order: print work to ensure close-reading. Enables ability to focus on writing: reading aloud is effective for editing. Hear sentence-structure issues: read work backwards sentence by sentence. Concentrate on the wording &grammar rather than being distracted by idea flow. Scan your essay, don"t just use spell check. Make sure to budget &manage this time. Has &have, when used with past participle, indicate action that began in the past &is ongoing to present time. Had with a past participle indicates even further back action: before a past time that is being discussed, point out an action that took place earlier in past time.
