Monday, February 4, 2013

Editing checklist

1. PREP(Preposition)
   Go to the hospital! Don't go home. In the hospital, the nurses will take care of you.

2. SVA(Subject-Verb Agreement)
   Mt.Sinai Hospital's anaesthetists, oncologists, and radiologists are world-famous.
   Do you know anyone who has won the Nobel Prize in medicine?

3. CS(Comma Splice)
   Modern diseases include cancer, obesity, and AIDS. They affect thousands of people in North America. 
However, just because you don't read about disease like malaria and smallpox in the news, it doesn't mean they don't exist anymore.

4. FRAG (Fragment)
  Although the family doctor was busy, the receptionist gave Thiru an appointment because Thiru's situation was very urgent.
 Pushpa is not a very healthy women. Kanesh is healthier.

5. RUN-ON sentence
  The doctor ordered a battery of tests which Arumugam had to undergo. These included a urine test, a blood test, an ECG, and stool test. There was also a prescription of pain medication. When Arumugam thought about it his headache worsened.

6. Tense
  I'm sorry I can't come on the field trip; I'm going back to Brunei.
  By next Saturday, I will have completed my full course of antibiotics.
  Last month, I had medical appointments.

9. Spelling
  This Hospital has few patients but many psychiatrists, psychologists, cardiologists, surgeons, gynaecologists, acupuncturists and other specialist doctors. It's hard to find any non-specialist physicians there.

1 comment:

  1. Great!
    Um, would you like to use the checklist to check your blog postings?

    ReplyDelete