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Revising and Editing

5 dot points across 5 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you spot and fix grammar and usage errors in a draft, the agreement, tense, and modifier problems the editing items target?

Editing for grammar and usage: identifying and correcting errors in subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement and reference, verb tense, and modifier placement within a draft passage, choosing the correction that follows standard English, on a LEAP English I or II revising and editing item.
How to edit for grammar and usage on a LEAP English I or II item: spotting and fixing subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement and reference, tense, and modifier errors in a draft, and choosing the correction that follows standard English. The same conventions are scored on the writing rubrics.
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What forms do revising and editing items take on LEAP, and how do you read each one to choose the right kind of improvement?

Revising and editing item types: recognizing the forms these items take (multiple-choice best-revision questions, underlined-portion corrections, technology-enhanced formats such as drag-and-drop and hot text), telling a revising question from an editing question, and using the question stem to choose the right kind of improvement on a LEAP English I or II passage.
How to read revising and editing item types on LEAP English I and II: multiple-choice best-revision questions, underlined-portion corrections, and technology-enhanced formats, and how to tell a revising question (content and clarity) from an editing question (mechanics) so you choose the right improvement.
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How do you revise a draft for clarity and organization, choosing changes that improve focus, flow, and development rather than just fixing grammar?

Revising for clarity and organization: improving a draft's focus, development, and organization by choosing the best transition, the most logical sentence order, the sentence that best supports a point, or the change that sharpens meaning, distinguishing revising (content and clarity) from editing (mechanics) on a LEAP English I or II revising and editing item.
How to revise a draft on a LEAP English I or II revising and editing item: improving focus, development, and organization by choosing the best transition, sentence order, or supporting sentence. Revising targets clarity and content; editing targets mechanics, and these items reward the change that improves meaning.
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How do you fix comma splices, run-ons, and fragments, and how do you combine short sentences into clearer, more varied ones?

Sentence boundaries and combining: recognizing and correcting comma splices, run-on sentences, and fragments, and combining short or choppy sentences into clearer, more varied ones using coordination, subordination, and appositives, on a LEAP English I or II revising and editing item.
How to handle sentence boundaries on a LEAP English I or II item: fixing comma splices, run-ons, and fragments, and combining choppy sentences using coordination, subordination, and appositives for clearer, more varied writing. These boundary skills are tested in editing items and rewarded on the writing rubrics.
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How do you choose the most precise, appropriate word in a draft, cutting wordiness and matching tone, register, and connotation?

Word choice and precision: improving a draft by choosing the most precise and appropriate word, cutting wordiness and redundancy, matching tone and register to the writing, and selecting words for their connotation, on a LEAP English I or II revising and editing item, the skill that also lifts written expression on the prose responses.
How to improve word choice on a LEAP English I or II item: choosing the most precise, appropriate word, cutting wordiness and redundancy, and matching tone and connotation. Precise word choice is tested in editing items and rewarded in the written-expression and conventions dimensions of the writing rubrics.
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