Beginning of the Year Proofreading Marks
Proofreading/Editing Marks I have a better version of this in docs Mrs. P's English Records AWK-- awk ward wording CM-- C om M entary CD-- C oncrete D etail TS--- T opic S entence Thesis Intro WW- W rong W ord, 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 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. A clause is a statement or a question that generally consists of a subject and a verb phrase and constitutes a complete...