J+Polishing

Polishing for Content: link to youtube version media type="custom" key="12523836" width="446" height="446"

Tasks: 1. Go through your paper and re-read your thesis before every body paragraph. Make sure your research supports your thesis and you tie each quote or paraphrase back to your thesis.

Polishing for Style: link to youtube version media type="custom" key="12523828" width="464" height="464" **Tasks**: 1. Go through your paper and circle all of the helping verbs: 2. Try to rearrange the sentences so you are using ACTIVE voice (meaning you are only using the action verb). // Example of passive voice: // The Smurfs were told they had to leave the country. // Revised to active voice: // The government told the Smurfs to leave the country. 3. Go through your paper to make sure you use TRANSITIONAL EXPRESSIONS to move from one paragraph to the next as well as from one point to another within the paragraph. Go to this site for examples and suggestions on how to use transitions. The document below is a list of different types of transitional expressions.
 * = am ||= is ||= are ||= was ||= were ||= be ||
 * = been ||= being ||= have ||= has ||= had ||= could ||
 * = should ||= would ||= can ||= may ||= might ||= must ||

Polishing for Conventions: link to youtube version media type="custom" key="12523820" width="464" height="464"

1. Go to the following site to review the rules for commas. After you have done this, go through your paper and revise your comma usage. 2. Go to the following site to review the rules of capitalization. After you have done this, go through your paper and proofread for capitalization errors. 3. Go to the following site to review the rules of quotation marks. After you have done this, go through your paper to proofread for quotation mark usage errors.
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