A WRITING CHECKLIST
A WRITING CHECKLIST
How to improve your (or your partner's) written work.
First check: Does the content in the text make sense?
* Is the information organized clearly and logically?
* Is the information sufficient? Elaborate enough? Interesting? Relevant to the topic? Coherent?
* Is the information redundant or irrelevant? Too detailed and elaborate?
Second check: Is the text adequately organized? Text and paragraphs
* Do you need a title, headings or subheadings?
* Have you considered an adequate organization into paragraphs?
- Introduction:
- Body paragraphs: Is there a topic sentence followed by supporting ideas?Do topic sentences of body paragraphs support main idea of the introduction?
- Conclusion: Does it connect to the main idea of the introduction?
* Is there coherence & cohesion?
Logical order of ideas: Order of importance / chronological order
* Is the lay-out ( spacing, indents, ) adequate to the text genre? (letter / proposal / application letter / film review / academic text / etc.)
Third check: Expression and formulation. Sentence.* Vocabulary: Is it adequate for the situation and the addressee formality/informality)?
Is it precise enough? Is it correctly spellt?
* Grammar: Is it correct? Subject/verb agreement (It bother you).
Word order (The leather old case)
(Will come you?)
Use of articles: (I like the music.)
* Cohesion: Grammatical links between sentences:
Pronouns, connectives, parallel forms
* Punctuation. Periods after sentences. Semicolons.
Run-on sentences
Sentence fragments. Dependent clauses
Top Related