Thirtieth Lesson

Editing your work as an outsider

When you are going to edit your work you can look the answers of following list of questions while editing your work. 

• Does the editing in particular, as well as the piece as a whole, answer the question that has been set?

• Is there a sense of a satisfy editing?

• Does the introduction seem helpful as a signpost to the whole piece?

• Can you understand what you written? If not, can you see why? Does the use of subject terminology seem clear and confident? 

• Why is the particular bit of information in the piece? What work is it doing for expressing the ideas of the assignment? 

• Does the whole piece hang together? 

• Do points --- both within and beyond paragraphs --- seem to follow logically?  

• Is there a sense of an argument developing?

• Does the piece of work raise any questions that it does not answer?

• Does the piece of work have a central idea? Is this idea apparent for the reader or do you have to search for it? Is it clear enough for you for restate in a different way?