Beginning of the Year Proofreading Marks

Proofreading/Editing Marks

I have a better version of this in docs  Mrs. P's English Records

• AWK-- awkward wording
• CM--ComMentary
• CD-- Concrete Detail
• TS--- Topic Sentence
• Thesis
• Intro
• WW- Wrong Word, get your thesaurus PRONTO!  Thesaurus.com
• Background Paragraph needed
• Conc-- Conclusion
• Global lessons-- where could these ideas go in the future?
• Slang-- your wording is too casual-- this includes I's, "you's, "a lot", very, greatly, etc.
• DS-- double-space
• Hanging Indent
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• F-- Fragment  Fragments are incomplete sentences. Usually, fragments are pieces of sentences that have become disconnected from the main clause. One of the easiest ways to correct them is to remove the period between the fragment and the main clause. 
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• A clause is a statement or a question that generally consists of a subject and a verb phrase and constitutes a complete thought. Sentences can consist of a singleclause, but they often include two: a main, or independent, clause and a subordinate, or dependent, clause. A main clause can form a complete sentence.
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• Subject:The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something. You can find the subject of a sentence if you can find the verb.
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• The action verb tells us what the subject of our clause or sentence is doing-physically or mentally. 

No logograms (i.e. &, @) but other symbols are okay.
Spell out short numbers like "five", but use numerals for large numbers greater than 

ALWAYS put the last name of the author in the parentheses before the period.

http://scratchtap.com/does-english-have-logograms/


and the editing/proofreading marks page from Redwood HS?

and the fricking RUBRIC for goodness' sake?  



I swear there are so many details I think my head is going to explode.