Correcting & proofreading checklist
Correcting and Proofreading Checklist
Correcting and Proofreading Checklist
Spelling
4 Have you spelled all of the words correctly?
4 Have you used the dictionary? (Read your writing backwards one word at a time when you check for spelling. Then you can't help but focus on each word and check it for spelling.)
Punctuation
4 Does each sentence end with an end punctuation mark?
4 Have you placed commas before the conjunctions and, but, or in compound sentences?
4 Have you used commas to set off items in a series?
4 Are apostrophes in place to show possession or to mark contractions?
4 Have you properly punctuated any conversation with quotation marks?
Capitalization
4 Have you started sentences and conversation with a capital letter?
4 Have you capitalized specific people, places, or things?
Usage
4 Have you misused any of the commonly mixed homonyms such as there, their, they're, to, too, two, its, it's, our, are, your, you're?
Grammar
4 Do your subjects and verbs agree? 4 Have you kept your verb tenses
consistent? 4 Have you used any sentence fragments
or run-on sentences?
Created by Ellen Gabor, Gazette -
Spelling
4 Have you spelled all of the words correctly?
4 Have you used the dictionary? (Read your writing backwards one word at a time when you check for spelling. Then you can't help but focus on each word and check it for spelling.)
Punctuation
4 Does each sentence end with an end punctuation mark?
4 Have you placed commas before the conjunctions and, but, or in compound sentences?
4 Have you used commas to set off items in a series?
4 Are apostrophes in place to show possession or to mark contractions?
4 Have you properly punctuated any conversation with quotation marks?
Capitalization
4 Have you started sentences and conversation with a capital letter?
4 Have you capitalized specific people, places, or things?
Usage
4 Have you misused any of the commonly mixed homonyms such as there, their, they're, to, too, two, its, it's, our, are, your, you're?
Grammar
4 Do your subjects and verbs agree? 4 Have you kept your verb tenses
consistent? 4 Have you used any sentence fragments
or run-on sentences?
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