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Editing

This document discusses the process of editing. It defines editing as refining a written work and lists the main steps as: 1) Discourse level editing to check themes and features, 2) Syntactic editing at the sentence level to fix missing/excess words and word order, 3) Morphological editing to fix errors in tense, voice, person, number, gender, subject-verb agreement, and affixes, and 4) Conventions of writing like punctuation and spelling. It emphasizes that the goal of editing is to refine the discourse and provides tips for teachers on facilitating student practice and feedback.

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Editing

This document discusses the process of editing. It defines editing as refining a written work and lists the main steps as: 1) Discourse level editing to check themes and features, 2) Syntactic editing at the sentence level to fix missing/excess words and word order, 3) Morphological editing to fix errors in tense, voice, person, number, gender, subject-verb agreement, and affixes, and 4) Conventions of writing like punctuation and spelling. It emphasizes that the goal of editing is to refine the discourse and provides tips for teachers on facilitating student practice and feedback.

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Editing

Discussion

• What is editing?
• What is the process of editing?
• How does editing help reading and writing ?
• How should the teacher interact while
process of editing?
Video presentation

Process of editing
Discussion

• What steps are followed while editing?


• How can the teacher address the slow
learners to edit their product?
• What other strategies can be followed to
help the students edit their writing?
Steps for Editing a discourse.
1. Discourse Level Editing

a) Thematic Editing: To make sure that


we have understood the theme.
b)Discourse specific features
2. Syntactic Editing

Sentence level editing


• Adding Missing Words
• Deleting Excess Words
• Word Order
3. Morphological Editing
• Errors in three areas (Tense & Voice)
progressive, perfective and passive.
• Error in PNG (Person, Number and Gender)
• Subject and verb agreement in person , number
and gender.
• Errors in affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
4. Conventions of Writing

Punctuation
Spelling
practice

Let’s try to transaction


editing
Sum up
• Refining the discourse is the main aim of
editing.
• Editing helps in use of vocabulary and phrases
contextually.
Dont’s

• Feedback should be given only at the


end after all the editing process is
completed
Do’s
• The task should be announced clearly.
• Input related to the task should be given.
• Before going into the groups instructions
are to be given.
• The presentations should be compared
with the additional points/different points
that are made in the presentation.

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