Purdue University Owl: Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision

A detailed source for professional editing and proofreading strategies. Links on the right offer several pages of text for both editing and proofreading, including guidelines and samples for each.

Don't simply proofread ... revise instead! Revising drafts is the topic of the 17th handout in UNC's Writing the Paper series of 24 lessons. Writers discover the importance of revision, as well as steps to follow during the process.

Defines the term and gives a number of detailed examples of its use. Also includes proofreading strategies to try. L.9-10.1a Parallelism

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with adding -ible or -able as suffixes to words based on the context of sentences.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with punctuating sentences.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with revising writing by having students read and revise a passage to reduce redundancy and wordiness.

Writing is not a one and done process. In fact, the stages of editing and proofreading, the focus of a flyer from a larger set of writing skills handouts, play a major role in creating a strong paper. However, as the reference sheet...

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing a research paper. This guide explains to write a conclusions section.

The Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) resource provides directions for how to write a book review.