HPA and GSMS Grade Eight LA

Use the RADaR strategy to focus your revisions.  The letters R, A, D, and R will help you remember to:

 

• Replace

• Add

• Delete and

• Reorder

 

Replace…

 

• Words that are not specific

 

• Words that are overused

 

• Sentences that are unclear

 

A thesaurus can be very helpful for this step.

 

 

Add …

 

• New details

 

• Descriptive adjectives and adverbs

 

• Rhetorical and literary devices

 

A thesaurus can be very helpful for this step.

 

 

Delete…

 

• Unrelated ideas

 

• Repeated ideas

 

• Unnecessary ideas

 

• Repeated words and phrases

 

 

Reorder…

 

• So that your ideas are ordered effectively

 

• So that the logical flow of your ideas is improved

 

• So that details are connected to related main ideas