Learning Outcome 6: Sentence-Level Error- Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling)

In high school, I would never really look at my papers and revise them or change my ideas. I would maybe read them over once before submitting them to make sure they sounded good but that was about as far as I went with revisions. In English 110, after looking at global revision, I looked at local revision to help make my papers more grammatically correct. Local revision can be easily missed because spelling and punctuation errors are so slight and can be hard to catch when looking over a paper too quickly. This is why it is important to look over your finished paper carefully, and read it multiple times before turning in the final product. In Figure 1, I have an example of a sentence from my second essay, showing my rough draft, and Figure 2 shows the revisions I have made to that specific sentence to make it more grammatically correct and flow better. Although these corrections are slight, and are not as big as global revision, it is important to look at sentence level errors to ensure that you as an author sounds knowledgeable and grammatically correct.

Figure 1: Initial Sentence in Essay #2 Rough Draft:

Figure 2: Revised Sentence in Essay #2 Final Draft: