Handouts on Revising and Proofreading

Revising and Proofreading: A Comprehensive Guide
This handout combines all the best tips from our most-used revising and proofreading handouts.

Seven Strategies for Revising
A checklist writers can use to guide content- and argument-related revision.

Five Tips to Make ANY Paper Stronger
Five strategies that could be applied to any paper to improve the argument and the writing.

Nine Strategies for Proofreading
A checklist writers can use to guide sentence-level editing.

Revising from a Teacher's Comments
A handouts with suggestions for approaching teacher-directed revision.

Revising for Cohesion and Coherence
Worried about whether your paper "flows"? Check out these tips specifically intended to improve cohesion and coherence (i.e., whether your paper "hangs together" and makes sense).

Questions for Self or Peer Review
Ten questions to guide a self-directed revision or a peer review.