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Revising ■ and Editing ■

Revising focuses on large-scale improvements—adding, moving, rearranging, and rewriting parts of your essay. Editing focuses on small-scale improvements by correcting convention errors (punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar). A checklist like this one can help you revise and edit your pet peeve essay.

Pet Peeve Revising and Editing Checklist