Informative Final Draft - Revise & Edit

Final Draft Worksheet

• Instructions: Using
• your informative essay revised draft, complete the following steps to do final revisions and edit your
• writing. Be sure to highlight changes that you make, so they can be clearly seen.

Final Revisions

Voice

• 1. Read your essay and identify the voice you are using. In one or two
• sentences, describe how you want your
• voice to sound.
• 2.
• Based on your description, identify two ways you can improve your writing to
• make this voice more clear in your story.
• 

Audience

• 
• 3. Consider the perspective of your audience. Informative writing does NOT assume that the reader has prior knowledge on a topic. Identify areas of weakness, ideas or concepts not explained, vocabulary not defined.
• 4. Add additional clarification in all necessary places.

Organization

• 
• 5. State what format you used. Sketch out a VERY basic outline to check for continuity and insert a picture of it into your document.
• 6. Add a comment about whether the current organization matches your intended organization and what you might need to add or alter for a continuity.

Word Choice

• 7. Paste one paragraph that you
• feel could use more interesting word choice below. Revise it with more vivid
• wording. Pay particular attention to places where you might switch to
• more active verbs, use precise language, include strong details, employ
• figurative language
• **Remember that informative writing does NOT equate to boring writing. (Otherwise, no one would buy National Geographic.)
• 

Transitions

• 8. Paste the transitions you have used to move between ideas in your essay.
• 9.
• Identify any places in your essay where you are not using clear transitions. Write
• new transitions for those parts and paste them here.
• 

Final Edits

Grammar, Structure, Punctuation, Spelling

• 10. Identify any errors in your writing mechanics and correct them here.
• Comma usage
• Semicolons
• Periods
• Spelling
• Formatting
• Paragraphing
•