Checklist: Revising for Mechanics
A checklist for revising an explication for grammar, usage, and mechanics.
ENGLISH 11AP - Language and Literature
Checklist - Revising the Explication for Mechanics
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Objective: to convince your readers that your understanding of a work is valid and important and to lead them to share that understanding.
REVISING FOR GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND MECHANICS
- Did you check for and revise fragments?
- Did you check for and revise run-ons (including both comma splices and fused sentences)?
- Did you verify that the verbs agree with their subjects in number?
- Did you verify that the pronouns have clear antecedents that agree in number (plural with plural or singular with singular)?
- Did you punctuate your sentences correctly?
- Did you place quotation marks around quoted material?
- Did you place commas and periods inside quotation marks?
- Did you drop colons and semicolons from the end of quoted material if they appear at the very end of the quotation?
- If you cited line numbers, did you place the appropriate number(s) in parentheses following the quotation marks?
- If you used such citations at the end of a sentence, did you place the parenthetical citation after the quotation marks but before the period?
- If you quoted material that begins on one line but ends on another, did you place a virgule (/) at the point where one line ends and the next begins? [See item Q3 on pp. 18-19 in Perrine.]
- If you quoted material that begins on one line but ends on another, did you maintain the capitalization as presented in the original?
- Did you spell the words correctly?
- Did you check for homophones that you might have used erroneously?
- Did you follow the rules of capitalization?
- Did you insert page numbering that includes your last name in the upper right corner of each page?
- Did you follow MLA formatting in the heading on the first page?