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Directions:
1. When I return your graded Workshop Piece, copy the rules from the “New Rules” onto
this list.
2. Use this list to self-edit your writing. Copy all of your personal rules below into the
“Rules I’m Editing For” column of your Workshop Piece rubric, then edit carefully for
those same conventions before you turn it in.
1. Conferred with teacher regarding something specific about this piece.
2. Had a peer edit this piece
3. Used printing rules for this piece
4. Comma before conjunction “but”
5. Punctuate a poem like a regular sentence
6. New paragraph/stanza for scene or time change
7. Circle and look up every word I’m not 100% certain of
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Adapted from “Individual Proofreading List,” © 1998 by Nancie Atwell from In the Middle, 2d ed. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers,
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Adapted from “Individual Proofreading List,” © 1998 by Nancie Atwell from In the Middle, 2d ed. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers,
Inc.