Either as a summary exercise or a one-shot (but reiterative) teaching tool for nine of the most common errors in writing, these editing checklists have been tested successfully in my classes over the last 4 years.
Students learn to recognize missing prepositions, misplaced commas and periods, comma splices, run-on sentences, misspelled proper nouns and other words, wrong tenses, etc., all at a glance!
The more they grind through these checklists, the more sensitive they get to these errors and