WRITING CHECKLIST

When you have finished your first draft, read it through carefully and check the following points before you write your final draft.

*SENTENCES

^Does every sentence have a verb?

^Are the sentences different lengths?

^Do the sentences start in different ways?

^In conversations, does each new speaker start on a separate line?

*VERBS

^ Are the verbs in the same tense throughout the draft?

^Are the verbs powerful?

^Do the verbs agree with the nouns?

*NOUNS

^Do the names of people, places, days, months, and festivals start with capital letters?

^Have you changed some nouns to pronouns, so they are not repeated too often?

^Have you made the nouns precise?

*ADJECTIVES

^Does every adjective add new information about a noun?

^Can you sometimes use a precise noun instead of an adjective?

*PUNCTUATION

^Does the first word of every sentence have a capital letter?

^Does every sentence end with a period, a question mark or an exclamation point?

^Are there commas between words in a list?

^Is there a comma between two adjectives?

^ Are the words that people speak inside quotation marks?