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ERROR CORRECTION CONVENTIONS

It is important to get familiar with the conventions used to make sure you are able to improve your
writing skills after analyzing the kind of mistakes you make and possible solutions. What you have
in the following chart is the convention, its meaning, and an example to clarify it.

CONVENTION MEANING EXAMPLE


WW Wrong Word There have many old restaurants.
WF Word Form I felt uncomfortable and embarrass
WO Word Order The house green effect
WC Word Choice I was in the work
VF Verb Form Many things were happened
Λ Omission A cup ^ tea
Behavior is the main characteristic of
Unclear Not Clear Meaning our personality, between the class
subcultures like the social, economic,
and religious also differ.
Frag Incomplete Idea The man at the table saw
— Unnecessary You can take photos about of it.

SUGGESTIONS

The following is a set of links to check some ideas to make corrections and avoid mistakes when
writing:

Prepositions

Common Mistakes Dictionary

Common Mistakes Explained

Punctuation

Comma

Semicolon

End Punctuation

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