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Revising ■ and Editing ■ Improving the Writing
When you revise your persuasive essay, you add, cut, move, and rework ideas to make your writing stronger. Here’s a quick checklist to guide your revising.
_____ Ideas Is my opinion clear and supported by strong reasons?
_____ Organization Do my reasons appear in the most persuasive order?
_____ Voice Do I use a persuasive voice? (See below.)
_____ Word Choice Do I use strong nouns and active verbs?
_____ Sentences Do my sentences read smoothly?
_____ Conventions Have I carefully checked punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar?