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Check Your First Draft 🟪 Look closely at each part—the topic sentence, the body, and the ending sentence.

• Are your sentences clear and in the best order?
• Do you need to add more details about your topic? (Check the samples on pages 55–58 for help.)

Correct Your Writing 🟪 Use these questions as a guide when you check your revised writing for errors:

• Are your words interesting and colorful (crumpled instead of old)?
• Have you used the right words, and are your words spelled correctly?
• Does each of your sentences begin with a capital letter and end with the correct punctuation mark?
• Did you indent your paragraph?

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