Editing

Discussion

• What is editing?
• What is the process of editing?
• How does editing help reading and writing ?
• How should the teacher interact while
process of editing?
Video presentation

Process of editing
 Discussion

• What steps are followed while editing?

• How can the teacher address the slow
learners to edit their product?
• What other strategies can be followed to
help the students edit their writing?
Steps for Editing a discourse.
 1. Discourse Level Editing

a) Thematic Editing: To make sure that

we have understood the theme.
b)Discourse specific features
 2. Syntactic Editing

Sentence level editing

• Adding Missing Words
• Deleting Excess Words
• Word Order
 3. Morphological Editing
• Errors in three areas (Tense & Voice)
progressive, perfective and passive.
• Error in PNG (Person, Number and Gender)
• Subject and verb agreement in person , number
and gender.
• Errors in affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
4. Conventions of Writing

Punctuation
Spelling
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Let’s try to transaction

editing
 Sum up
• Refining the discourse is the main aim of
editing.
• Editing helps in use of vocabulary and phrases
contextually.
 Dont’s

• Feedback should be given only at the

end after all the editing process is
completed
 Do’s
• The task should be announced clearly.
• Input related to the task should be given.
• Before going into the groups instructions
are to be given.
• The presentations should be compared
with the additional points/different points
that are made in the presentation.