Self-Editing Stations

When you turn in your rough draft on Friday, you will be expected to have completed the self-editing stations. Since different students are in different stages of the writing process, you will be expected to complete this on your own if you did not do it in class.

Introduction
1. Underline the hook. Beside it, write the type of hook that you employed.
2. If you used a quote hook, did you include an analysis of the hook? Circle the analysis.
3. If you did not provide an analysis for the quote hook, then you need to write one.
4. Circle your thesis and number your three supporting details.

Organization/Support
1. Circle the topic sentence and underline the conclusion sentence for your two body paragraphs.
2. Are these sentences effective? Do the topic sentences include the idea?
3. Do the facts that you included support your argument? Star all of your facts.
4. Did you provide analysis for each of your facts?
5. Are your facts from credible sources?

Word Choice
1. Underline all descriptive words in your introduction. Are these words strong?
2. Change any weak descriptive words. (This about what was on the banned words list.)
3. Circle all of the verbs in your first body paragraph. Are these words strong and specific?
4. Change any weak verbs.

Format/Conventions
1. Look at the beginning of all of your sentences--does each one start with the subject? Can you vary your sentence beginnings?
2. Are all of your sentences simple sentences? Do you use enough complex and compound-complex sentences?
3. Check for run-on sentences and sentence fragments. You will lose MANY points for these.
4. Fix any grammatical issues.