Teaching Resources: Copy-editing

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Copy-editing

 

  

Process Goals

The last draft produced focuses on proofreading and copy-editing. By separating out this step, we enable the students to develop and hone their editing skills, and to focus on issues such as grammar when it is most relevant: after the text is produced and will no longer undergo many changes. In the initial units, students will be asked to work on this step in class; in later units, copy-editing will still occur after the revision draft is produced, but the two steps may be expected without class intervention.

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