Please use this document to help you think about what you have written. Write in your impressions and attach it to your first typed draft of your essay.

Essay Edit

1. Firstly, did you eradicate all grammar errors? Especially the fragments we discussed in class? (question=fragment)

2. Does your story have paragraphs? A title? A name?

3. Does it have a beginning middle and end?

4. Would your story make a good movie?

5. Read the story aloud. Did you make changes after doing this?

6. Start with the last sentence. Read it. Go to the next to last. Read it.
Repeat until you're out of sentences. Make sense?

7. Underline all the verbs. What do they have in common?

8. Which words do you use most often? Which phrases?

9. Does the story start in the middle of the action?

10. What's the topic? Audience? Purpose?