Close a Passage: Four Editing Strategies

Close a Passage: Four Editing StrategiesAn analysis essay sample presents students with a challenge - how do you close a passage without giving away the entire meaning of the essay? In this article, I review four strategies for completing this challenging task.* How do you close a passage without revealing the full context? To close a passage, use a contextual editing technique to remove extraneous information, incomplete information, and some writing fragments. Some examples of extraneous information include attributing the quotes to the speaker or author, misattributing words to the speaker or author, and making assumptions about the speaker's experience or knowledge. The best way to accomplish these editing tasks is to provide evidence to support each claim.* How do you close a passage without revealing the opinions expressed in the essay? Sometimes the most effective way to close a passage is to leave them as they are. A student who want to leave an essay intact might open the es say with an introductory statement, but no one will read it without the introduction.* How do you close a passage that has been rewritten? When a student makes an error in spelling or grammar, they should read the passage in its original form.* How do you close a passage that has been split? If a student has written several chapters, sections, or sections of an essay and finds that only parts of each chapter or section have been read, then the student may want to use a stylistic editing technique to separate the chapter or section into sections and paragraphs.* How do you close a passage that does not seem coherent? The best way to close a passage that has a simple structure, one or two main ideas, and a theme is to replace each main idea with a description of how the student uses this idea in the conclusion.* How do you close a passage that provides only partial or no information? Sometimes a student needs to make small changes in order to close a passage that has been rewritten, g iven an incorrect punctuation, or seems disjointed.* How do you close a passage that has already been closed? Sometimes a student has been very gracious in sharing information with the instructor, but needs to close a passage that has not yet been assigned or discussed. This can be done by providing supporting documentation, such as the speaker's transcript.