Make Changes, Show the Teacher, and Repeat

The next step of the research process involves using the feedback from your conferences and the checklists and other guidelines to make changes to the ideas, facts, and information (content) of your paragraph. This is called REVISION. This step also involves using the feedback to make corrections to the mechanics of your writing. This is called EDITING. There is a strategy we use to help us remember what to look for when we are correcting mechanics. It's called the COPS strategy, and if you don't use it, the Mechanical Mistake Police may be looking for you. 

Click on the picture below to get information about this strategy. 

Once you have done all the revision and editing changes you are able to make, show the teacher the results. You may have to do more revision and editing if you are given any more suggestions from the teacher. This will complete the revision and editing stages of the writing process.