Editing is the process that comes after students have changed and revised their main ideas in their writing. We often associate editing with grammar, punctuation, and spelling but editing and proofreading also involves 'sentences'. It is one of the keys in order to improve essay writing skills.
It is important to check the length of sentences, sentence beginnings, and correct sentence types when editing and proofreading.
Sentence Length It's not the best idea to consistently write short sentences throughout a piece of writing. The same goes for long sentences. It's best to mix up sentence lengths in writing. When editing and proofreading sentences, it is important to make sure that sentences are sometimes combined and sometimes split into two.
For example, we can combine sentences:
The cat meowed. The cat drank its milk.
This sentence could be combined into one sentence.
The cat meowed and then drank its milk.
Or, we can split sentences:
David rode his bike all day long then he came in for a bath so that he could be clean for bedtime.
This sentence can be split into two sentences:
David rode his bike all day long. After, he came in for a bath so that he could be clean for bedtime.
