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Effective self editing

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             I've read through each scene and am confident I haven't left any .
             plot strings dangling. .
             My characters are three-dimensional, non-stereotypical, interesting, .
             and consistent. .
             My dialogue sounds like real people talking. .
             My point of view (POV) remains the same throughout the entire .
             story "or if POV changes, it is done carefully and not within a .
             single scene. .
             Each paragraph and section is the logical result of the preceding .
             paragraph or section. .
             My tone is appropriate to my subject matter and my audience. .
             The Nitty Gritty .
             I've used my computer's spell-check and reread my manuscript .
             looking for words the spell-check might have missed (such as .
             mistakenly using their when I meant they're). .
             My grammar is correct. .
             My punctuation is correct. .
             I avoid redundancies. .
             I use active rather than passive verbs. .
             I use specifics rather than generalizations. .
             I avoid clichés. .
             I use only essential modifiers. .
             Proven Tactics for Effective Self-Editing .
             the big picture .
             Effectiveness of overall story .
             When you wrote your story, novel, or article, you had a specific .
             idea of the emotions you wanted to evoke in your reader. Perhaps .
             you wrote a story about chemical waste at a factory and you .
             wanted to convey horror and indignation. Maybe you wrote .
             a coming-of-age story about a young boy and you wanted to make .
             your reader feel nostalgic. Does your writing affect the reader the .
             way you want it to? .
             This is a situation that begs for an additional reader. If you've let .
             your writing "cool off,"" you will have gained some objectivity, .
             which will make you a better reader "but you won't be able to get .
             out of your own head enough to read it with a completely fresh .
             eye. Find a couple of people you trust, and when they finish .
             reading ask for their immediate response "not just whether they .
             liked it, but how it made them feel. You might also ask your .
             readers to summarize this piece of writing in one or two sentences.


Essays Related to Effective self editing

1. Video Self-Modeling and Male Adolescents with Autism

Video self-modeling (VSM) is an effective but under-used instructional strategy for children with on the autism spectrum (Bellini & McConnell, 2010). ... Research is often focused on identifying effective practices. No matter how effective a practice is, it won't be helpful to a student if it is never implemented. A major reason video modeling isn't done more is a perceived notion that there is difficulty in editing and producing the video. ... Typically, producing and editing takes less than an hour and the intervention itself only takes 1-3 minutes. ...

  • Word Count: 1917
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. History and Identity of the Zulu People

It also offered a more effective means of reaching and controlling Zulu students. The scouting movement presented a measure of rightfulness and self-pride for African boys who faced minimal existence during the apartheid era. ... Publishers could edit books and pieces of literature to say whatever they wanted. ... The genuine voice of the Zulu's was not represented because it was edited greatly by the Americans. ... Even though it was called ShakaZulu T.V it was completely edited though the eyes of the white man. ...

  • Word Count: 1246
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Sovereignty

With the Reformation and Counter-reformation and the subsuquent wars of religion "the emerging authority of the secular state appeared to be the most effective remedy for the widespread religious and political disorder that enfulged Europe"(2). ... Also, principal of non-intervention and self-determination were other main principles of sovereignty. ... When Germany and Italy completed their unification process, this caused disputes between the newly unified countries and old powerfil countries, such as Great Britain, France, Russia about imperialism.And mainly this disputes led to the world...

  • Word Count: 1850
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. E.T.

Editing They did edit out a lot of this movie the first time around, providing for the time constraints. Editing compensates for the long shots that some movies are shot in, and then only bits and pieces of this long scene are used to portray the main points as well as they can. The growing relationship between Elliot and ET is evident with parallel editing. ... This kind of editing is very effective at establishing the relationship between the two mentally. ...

  • Word Count: 2596
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Consider how documentary serves as a vehicle for the perform

Over the course of this essay I intend to use these two filmmakers use the documentary film serves as a vehicle for the promotion of self. ... The documentary film or rather the documentary films produced by Moore and Broomfield provide a very effective means of self publicity and in Moore's case influencing opinion. ... Both filmmaker's films are very effective at portraying themselves in the best possible light, crusading to right a wrong or find a truth. ... This sequence has generated controversy with many suggesting it was edited to look like Heston was walking away as Moore ca...

  • Word Count: 2396
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. The Brilliant and Dramatic Evolution of Cinema

As the medium of film has progressed, so too has the sophistication of filmmaking technology, from cameras, to sound recording, to editing. ... The continuation of this technological editing evolution is most evident in the Constructivist-influenced, state-sponsored Soviet montage movement of the 1920s. ... However, the more complex editing techniques were not, in themselves, what drove the quality of montage films, but instead the "more specific strategies of editing, involving temporal, spatial, and graphic tensions" (Thompson & Bordwell 117). ... While Soviet Montage filmmakers ...

  • Word Count: 2663
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Models, Photoshop and Reality

Yet the advertisement companies' tactics are effective for reaching its targeted audience. ... The purpose of fuller lips was something she was always self-conscious about. ... The ASA's code – CAP – is not considered law because it is "self-regulatory" (O'Neil 4). ... This self-run system is powerful and effective for the bettering of the people. ... Considering exactly what Photoshopping is it takes a model or celebrity image to then digitally edit it to improve it for the viewer. ...

  • Word Count: 1892
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. The Biology and Psychology of Drug Abuse

In Freudian psychoanalysis, the client will be instructed to talk about the troubles that come to mind, with little editing as possible and without inhibiting or controlling thoughts and fantasies. ... Having a Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the best known self-help group, for virtually every life problem. This self-help group seems to be more effective and helps a great deal. ...

  • Word Count: 883
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

9. Censorship extremes

Just like movie and radio censors before them, they turned to self-censorship in their efforts to avoid censorship from outside their industry. ... The Hay's Production Code, that went to the extreme of forcing director William Wyler to use "clean" garbage in his portrayal of New York's slums in the 1936 film Dead End, was effective in avoiding outside censorship until changing community standards forced changes in the industry in the late 1960s. ... From early on there were sketches edited from the show because of "objectionable" content. Some of the sketches that were edited dea...

  • Word Count: 983
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

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