Better Writing Through
Editing
Jan Peterson and Stacy A. Hagen
Intermediate
This text teaches intermediate students how to edit their own writing for correct
sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and expression. Using a systematic
approach for studying writing and editing problems, students discover their
individual strengths and weaknesses and are encouraged to monitor their own
progress. The text is divided into three parts:
Part 1 – Getting Started, presents a diagnostic self-assessment and an editing
system that teaches students to self-evaluate
Part 2 – Writing Focus, provides practice and features writing assignments
based on a chapter theme and rhetorical focus
Part 3 – Editing Focus, used concurrently with Writing Focus, allows teachers
to customize learning based on student needs. It provides clear explanations of
editing problems and hundreds of grammar-based practice exercises that can be
assigned based on specific errors that occur in student writing
Features
• Simple and concise grammar presentations focus on errors that are
common for intermediate ESL/ELT students
• Error, Progress, and Sentence Type charts allow students to track their
own progress
• Contextualized activities give students practice in areas such as runons,
fragments, subject-verb agreement, singular/plural, noun/pronoun
agreement, and prepositions
• Engaging thematic writing assignments give students practice writing in
various rhetorical forms
• Beginning and Final Editing Assessments target individual strengths and
weaknesses and track student improvement
