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**Revision Checklist**

**Editing Checklist**

NJ ASK Writer's Checklist 

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*Revising and Editing Skills*

Frequently Confused Words 

REVISING and EDITING SKILLS 

A. Edit to correct common capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors. 

Capitalization

• ·         a title used with a persn’s last name (Mayor Lynch)
• ·         appropriate words in a title (A Tale f Two Cities)
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Punctuation 

periods

• ·         at the end of declarative and imperative sentences
• ·         at the end of an abbreviation
• ·         question marks (at the end of direct questions)

commas

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• ·         between city and state (Trenton, New Jersey)
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• ·         to set off a name in direct address (Joel, will you help me?)
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apostrophes

• ·         in possessives (the baby’s toys, the babies’ toys, Charles Dickens’s novels, theDickenses’ woes)
• ·         in contractions (she’s, aren’t, could’ve