1. Speech Peer and Self Edits

2. Overview By this point you should have a printed version of your second draft. The content of your speech should be solid at this point, Today, we will start by making your narrative come alive to really engage your audience. Then, we will ensure our grammar, spelling, and formatting is as perfect as possible. If you don’t have a printed version of your second draft, you need to take out a piece of paper and take notes on the following editing tips and complete it for homework.

3. Peer Edit -- Narration Pass your printed speech to someone sitting next to you who also has a printed speech. Read the first paragraph and look for anything that makes the narrative engaging and come alive. Put a star next to it. In the margins, make any suggestions to the type of actions and imagery your partner could add. Imagery – descriptive language that utilizes the five sense. In the margins, make comments on how smoothly the narrative transitions into the thesis. Make recommendations.

4. Peer Edits -- Capitalization and Spelling Read through your partner’s essay and fix the following: Capitalize all first words of sentences. Capitalize proper nouns (names of people, places, things, and ideas). Capitalize the word “I” Check for spelling errors

5. Self Edit -- Header In the upper left corner, make sure you have the following: Your Name Instructor’s Name Class Date

6. Self Edit -- Unique Title Examples of bad titles: MIELcon, Paper, Essay #1, I-America Essay Example of a good title: Heroes from Home

7. Self Edit -- Center your title Always center your title Center by justifying center. Do not just tab or space over to where you think the center is.

8. Self Edit -- Formatting Font: Always use Times New Roman font for any writing that appears anywhere in your essay. Indent: Always indent the beginning of each paragraph. Indent by pressing the tab key. Double Space: Make sure the entire text is double spaced.

9. Self Edit -- Embedding evidence – Speaker Tags? You must always embed your evidence with speaker tags Example Wrong: “My daddy left home when I was three” (Cash 1). Correct: Sue explains, “My daddy left home when I was three” (Cash 1).

10. Self Edit -- Citations and Its Punctuation Remember citation rules and how to punctuate evidence. Longer Books – Author’s last name and page number Example: The narrator states, “The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him” (Rowling 2). Newspaper Articles Put the author’s last name and the page number in parenthesis. If there is no page number, simply leave it out. If there is no author, simply write the name of the newspaper. Example: It appeared that “A 25 year old man was shot to death inside the Hyatt Regency hotel” (Chachkevitch 5). Websites Put the author’s last name and the page number in parenthesis. If there is no page number, simply leave it out. If there is no author, simply write the name of the website. Example: Everyday in countries around the world, animals are fighting for their lives (PETA).