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2. Here's why students don't revise what they write - AOL

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   Only 27% of 12th grade students in the U.S. write at a proficient level. Deepak Sethi/E+ via Getty ImagesWhen high school students get into the habit of revising their writing, it has a positive ...

3. Revision week - Wikipedia

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   Revision week is a period in the UK and other Commonwealth countries preceding examinations in high schools, higher education institutions, and military colleges. In American colleges, this period is known as a Reading Period. [1] Generally, this period is one week long and free of classes or assessment, permitting students to spend the period ...

4. Copy editing - Wikipedia

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   Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style and accuracy. [2] [3] The Chicago Manual of Style states that manuscript editing encompasses "simple mechanical corrections ...

5. Revision (writing) - Wikipedia

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   Revision is a process in writing of rearranging, adding, or removing paragraphs, sentences, or words. Writers may revise their writing after a draft is complete or during the composing process. Revision involves many of the strategies known generally as editing but also can entail larger conceptual shifts of purpose and audience as well as content.

6. Electoral reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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   e. Electoral reform in the United States refers to efforts to change American elections and the electoral system used in the United States . Most elections in the U.S. select one person; elections with multiple candidates selected by proportional representation are relatively rare. Typical examples include the House of Representatives, whose ...

7. Christopher Morley - Wikipedia

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   Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of a unanimity. This quote originally appeared in Morley's column "Brief Case; or, Every Man His Own Bartlett" in The Saturday Review of Literature, Nov. 6, 1948. Career. Morley began writing while still in college. He edited The ...