FRIDAY is EDITING DAY

Target: to review the editing process and prepare your essay to turn in on during class on Monday.

 1. Review MLA formating rules:

• Double-space your paper.  Eliminate large spaces between paragraphs.
• Insert Header--Right align--Last name--Insert page number top corner.
• put a heading in the top left hand corner
• Looks like this:  Your name/ English 9/ LaMonte Period/ Literary Essay/day/month/year
• Make sure you have quotation marks around your direct quotations and that you attribute (Romeo says,)  and cite every line or paraphrase of the text. 
• Citations need to be punctuated like this: ... end of your quote" (Act.scene.line). 
• Indent the first line of every paragraph. 
• Make sure your font is consistent--12 point  No fancy fonts!
• Give your paper a title that sums up your point.  Don't underline it.  Just capitalize every world (except articles and prepositions) and center it after your heading, before your essay.
• Italicize the title Romeo and Juliet and be sure that you have spelled William Shakespeare correctly.

2. Grammar check:  

• Spellcheck!  Review the suggestions, but be aware that spellcheck can't catch it all.  Be vigilant here!  Check for common errors:  there/they're/their  it's/its  who/whom  to/too
• Read your (or your partner's paper) out loud.  Check for sentence errors: fragments, run ons, comma splices, fused sentences.
• Find one place where you could combine sentences to avoid repetition.
• Has the writer properly introduced each piece of text with context?  

PEER EDITING: SHARE YOUR PAPER WITH YOUR PARTNER on google docs. Set to comment only.  When you see an error in your partner's paper, comment on it and tell them what the problem is. For example, sp=spelling error, frag= fragment, ro=run on sentence, ^ insert missing word, cs=comma splice, fs=fused sentence, ???= can't understand what you are saying here/rephrase,