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Embassy of the United States of America University of California – Berkeley College Writing 2.2x

Embassy of the United States of America Is your title interesting and descriptive of your contents? Will your opening sentence attract the reader’s attention? If not, how can you improve it? Will your readers learn something interesting from your essay? Have you organized your essay logically? Do you support your main idea with examples? Does all the writing relate to your main idea? Look for unnecessary information and edit it out. Revision Checklist

Embassy of the United States of America Do you use effective transitions to connect your details and examples so that your readers can follow your writing? Does the conclusion bring your essay to a satisfying close? Does it leave the reader something to think about? Did you choose your tone and diction carefully? Did you check for accurate use of vocabulary? Do you use varied sentence structures and sentence lengths to make your writing interesting to read? How happy are you with your essay? Do you think readers will enjoy reading it?

Embassy of the United States of America Check for logical order Read backwards Listen to your paper Editing Techniques