Revising and editing Part II (15%)

Scores

My results for the proofreading, revising and editing assignment are the following:

Pre-test: 45/50
Lesson 2: 55/60
Lesson 3: 16/18
Lesson 4: 17/21
Lesson 5: 3/3 & 2 mistakes
Lesson 6: 8/10
Lesson 7: 20/25
Lesson 12: 39/40
Lesson 13: 14/14
Lesson 14: 28/32
Lesson 17: 12/12
Post-test: 48/50

Effectiveness

I think that the proofreading, revising and editing assignment is a great tool and should be used by many people regardless how proffesionnaly they may master the english language because this test offers an immense diversity of lessons to learn from. The lessons are great and not too time consuming. It permits us all to have a better idea of how to revise our own work.

Things learned

In the second lesson (Writing Setences) , I learned about run-on sentences. As a person, I speak a lot. A run-on sentence is sort of like if I did not stop talking instead of taking pauses between my sentences. In a literary way, those pauses would be represented by punctuation such as commas and periods. They are very important because if a sentence is too long, it may be missing some "key ingredients". Without them, a  simple sentence could lose all it's meaning. In the sixth lesson (Using transitions), I learned that using proper transitions are very important such as keeping the energy at a party by transitions from one song to another smoothly. For example, using a transitions within a sentence can be used to connect two clauses or even connect two phrases! Liking ideas together keeps a reader intrigued because of how simple it can make a complex text appear. In the twelfth lesson (Checking Capitalization and Spelling) I learned that the rules learned here can be used in nearly any situation ever. I was surprised to learn here because I was under the impression that spelling and Capitalization was something easy. One that caught me go guard was the "able rule". I never even noticed that words with "able" made perfect sense without the suffix itself.

Appreciation


What I liked most about this course was the diversity of the lessons. It makes it easily accessible to everybody giving us all a chance to improve where we need it the most! I appreciated the sixth lesson (Using transitions) because it is a concept that i personally show difficulty for. On the other hand, what I liked least about the course what the length of the lessons themselves. Although it increased the effectiveness of our results, fifty questions per lesson in very long and made me loose interests quickly.

Course rating


I would give the revising and editing assignment a rating of eigth  on ten. Firstly, I improved my weak point in writing big time! Secondly, the questions were very precise and allowed me to figure out where  really needed the extra help. The reasons that i did not give the class a ten on ten was (as mentioned earlier) the length of the course itself. I brings out a little bit of boredom, the little questions gets old fast.

In conclusion, it was a very good course am I am happy that I have had the chance to do it in order to get the chance t figure the flaws in my revising techniques.