ENGLISH 2311

PROOFREADING AND CORRECTION SYMBOLS

 

 

Numbers in parentheses refer to page numbers in Reporting Technical Information

 

 

Sentence Problems

Fr Sentence Fragment (648-49)

CS Comma Splice (662-63)

Fus Fused Sentence (662-63)

Ag Agreement: Subject and Verb (667-68)

Pronoun and Antecedent (659-60)

Ca Case

D Dangling Modifier (622)

MM Misplaced Modifier or phrase (653)

Rf Vague or faulty Reference or Pronoun (660)

T Wrong Tense

T-S Tense Shift

G Garbled or Confused Sentence structure or Meaning

// Faulty Parallelism (657)

F-C Faulty Complement or Faulty Comparison

 

Diction Problems

Sp Spelling (665-67). Consult your dictionary.

J Jargon Word or Phrase

Us Usage

Wdy Fat Prose: Delete the wordiness

Pl Plural Needed

Pr Wrong Preposition

Dict Diction (105-09). Includes trite expressions and colloquial language

Awk Awkward Phrasing

 

Punctuation Problems

\ A \ through a symbol means it should be deleted

c Comma (618-22)

\ ; / Semicolon (663-64)

\ : / Colon (617-18)

\ ‘ / Apostrophy (613-15)

\ " / Quotation Marks (661-62)

Cap Capitalize (616-17)

lc Put in lower case

Abr Abbreviation (611-12)

It Underline to indicate italic type (652-53)

 

Paragraph and Essay Problems

¶ Paragraphing (92-96)

Tr Transition Needed (94-95)

Coh Lack of Paragraph Coherence

Dev Lack of Paragraph Development

Log Faulty Logic (26); Handout

Exp Lack of Clarity: Further explanation is needed

Primer S Primer Style: Sentence combining and subordination needed (07-104)

Delete the word or phrase indicated

? I cannot make out this word or phrase