Comprehensive editing
Comprehensive Editing Analysis
Use this template to guide your planning for comprehensive editing. Specifically, this template will help you evaluate the original document and create corresponding objectives for editing it.
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Document Title |
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Rhetorical Context |
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Document Purpose Purpose Informing, Directing, Consulting, or Valuing Dimensions Transactional or Transformational Static or Dynamic |
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Document Audience Readiness Ability Expert or Non-Expert Willingness Sensitive or Non-Sensitive Relationship Value Difference Relative Equality Uncertainty Tolerance Power Difference Downward, Upward, or Lateral Social Distance Familiar or Unfamiliar |
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Evaluation of Original |
Objective for Editing Original |
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Development |
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Informative Content (definitions, descriptions, examples, comparisons and contrasts, classifications) |
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Persuasive Content (quantified evidence, sourced evidence, appropriate evidence, persuasive interpretations, addresses objections) |
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Organization |
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Placement of Bottom Line |
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Paragraph Unity |
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Cohesion |
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Transitions |
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Style and Tone |
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Conciseness |
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Parallel Structure |
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Active and Passive Voice |
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Word Choice |
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Tone |
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Graphics |
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Format |
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White Space |
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Typography |
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Lists |
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Copyediting (grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, number style, abbreviations, and references) |
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