Editing Essay

The title of a longer work should be

• Capitalized and italicized

• Capitalized and bolded

• lower case and italicized

• lower case and bolded

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CCSS.L.5.2D

Picture this, you have your dream job, you are making extra money. You don't have to worry about student debt, which is what it would be like if college is free.

In this conclusion, how could the closing statement be rewritten in 3rd person?

• changing you to everyone and your to his/her

• changing you to I and your to my

• it can't be rewritten

• nothing, it's already in 3rd person

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CCSS.L.1.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

To wrap it up, HW is a source of stress and can break family relationships. If HW was gone, kids would have a happier life. Imagine, life without homework. How could the word choice be changed to sound more academic and polished?

• changing kids to children or students

• restating reasons separately

• changing homework to academic work

• adding a comma after "stress"

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

In addition, in 1981, PETA found that monkeys were so scared that they were hurting them selfs.

them selfs?

• it's correct

• themselves

• their selves

• themselfs

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CCSS.L.2.1C

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1B

If your essay does not make sense to you, what should you do?

• Rewrite the entire essay over.

• Ask the teacher for help during the test.

• Fix mistakes, reread again until it makes sense and answers the question.

• Leave it, its perfect the way it is and people will understand.

After you finish writing your essay, what should you do?

• Add extra information on the sides.

• Rewrite the whole essay again.

• Be happy because you're finished!

• Reread your essay.

Melissa rewrites her essay so that her ideas more clearly match the prompt and intended audience. Which process is this?

• Revising

• Publishing

• Editing

• Drafting

The most compelling evidence is that the Humane Society of the U.S. found three adoribal baby mice seald alive in plastic bags left unattended.

adoribal?

• it's correct

• adorible

• adorable

• edorible

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CCSS.L.3.1G

Firstly, there is a lack of evidence that HW actually helps students. 4th grade students got similar scores to those who did no HW. Homework can cause physical and emotional fatigue. What needs to be changed in this paragraph?

• The evidence doesn't match the reason/topic sentence.

• The elaboration doesn't match the evidence or the reason/topic sentence.

• The reason doesn't match the evidence and elaboration.

• It's correct.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Why do we use transitions?

• To make us mess up

• To make the writing flow

• to be mean

• Because we want to

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.5.6