Defining Autism

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EDITING 101
The Perfecting of your Paper
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How do I edit?

• Editing means carefully checking the technical
  correctness of your paper.

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• You carefully examine your writing for
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Capitalization

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Grammar

• Remember nouns, adjectives, and verbs?
• What was a very important thing we learned about
  verbs?
• Every complete sentence has to have one!

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• Sentence a group of words that contains a
  subject and a verb, and that expresses a complete
  thought.
• Example The window in the kitchen could not be
  opened.

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• Fragment looks like a sentence BUT is actually
  only part of a sentence.
• Example The telephone with redial capacity

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• Test to identify sentence fragments

• Is there a verb?
• Is there a subject?
• Does it express a complete thought?

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• A run-on sentence occurs when two complete
  sentences run into each other without any
  punctuation.
• Example the icebergs broke off from the glacier
  they drifted into the sea.

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• A comma splice occurs when a comma (instead of a
  period) is used incorrectly between two complete
  sentences.
• Example the icebergs broke off from the
  glacier, they drifted into the sea.

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Spelling
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Punctuation

• A statement is followed by a period.

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• A question is followed by a question mark.

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• An exclamation is followed by an exclamation
  point.

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• Use commas to separate items in a series.
• Use a comma before the words and, but, for, or,
  so, yet when one of these words joins an
  independent clause.

Whew!
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Capitalization

• Always capitalize the first word of a sentence.
• Always capitalize the pronoun I.
• Example Yesterday I wrote my first draft of
  this paper.

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• Always capitalize proper nouns and proper
  adjectives.
• Examples
• Chief Seattle
• Last of the Mohicans
• Mrs. Johnson

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• Always capitalize geographical names.
• Examples
• Bushy Run Battlefield
• Fort William Henry
• Lake George

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• Now start editing!