The Writing Checklist

Use this checklist to check your work for common mistakes

before submitting it to your teacher.
ORGANIZATION: I wrote my name, the date and the title at the top.
ORGANIZATION: I used the questions for this assignment to write my rough draft
and I checked to make sure I answered all of them.
ORGANIZATION: I indented each paragraph.
ORGANIZATION: Each paragraph I wrote has at least three sentences.
NEATNESS: I wrote my final draft in my neatest handwriting.
PUNCTUATION: I used the correct punctuation in each sentence.
CAPITALIZATION: I capitalized the first letter of each sentence and all proper
nouns.
GRAMMAR: I did not use run-on sentences or start a sentence with and.
GRAMMAR: I checked every noun for an Indefinite Article (a, an, the). Here are
some examples; a tree, an elephant, the black spider, a blue igloo, an eye.
GRAMMAR: I checked every sentence for Subject-Verb Agreement mistakes
(singular or plural nouns and the verb). Here is an example with the corrections in
parenthesis. The protagonist (s) is (are) Captain Underpants, George and Harold.
GRAMMAR: I checked that each sentence was written in the correct grammatical
tense.
SPELLING: I checked the spelling of words that I was not sure how to spell.
COHERENCE: I reread my assignment to make sure it could be clearly understood by
the reader.