Thursday's Final Essay: Revision, Reformatting, Copy-Editing, Uploading

 The final (graded) version of your first short essay is due no later than 3:00 pm this Thursday, September 9.

Take your draft and make it better. This is called revision. Maybe include a different story, maybe give your sentences more detail and specificity, check to see if you need to vary your sentence structure. After finishing your revision, the next step is re-formatting. Select all of the text (Command + A) and in the layout menu choose "columns" and then 2. While the text is still highlighted, switch from double-spaced to single-spaced. You should now have a document with two single-spaced columns. In the top left corner, you have the option of inserting an image the somehow connects with your piece of writing. It could be your own drawing or photograph, it could be a meme or something that you lift from the internet. The image could be anything as long as it connects somehow to the writing. If the writing is longer than a single page, two-columns, single-spaced, then your essay can continue on to a second page. You could also use a smaller font. Here's an example of a "standard" formatted paper:

Here's the same paper reformatted according to the directions above:

Copy-editing is not the same as revising. When you're copyediting, you want to focus on issues of correctness and style. This is when you fix spelling errors, typos, punctuation mistakes, etc. Uploading is the final stage and it doesn't need much explanation.