Monday, February 4, 2013

EDITING CHECKLIST

1. PREP(Preposition)
Go to hospital! Don't go home. In the hospital, the nurses will take care of you.

2. SVA(Subject-Verb Agreement)
Mt.Sinai Hospital's anaesthetists, oncologists, and radiologists are world-famous.
Do you know anyone who has won the Nobel Prize in medicine?

3. CS(Comma Splice)
Modern diseases include cancer, obesity, and AIDS. They affect thousands of people in North America.
However, just because you don't read about diseases like malaria and smallpox in the news. it doesn't mean they don't exist anymore.

4. FRAG (Fragment)
Although the family doctor was busy, the receptionist gave Thiru an appointment because Thiru's situation was very urgent.
Pushpa is not a very healthy women. Kanesh is healthier.

5. RUN-ON SENTENCE
The doctor ordered a battery of testswhich Arumugam had to undergo. These included a urine test, a blood test, an ECG, and stool test. There was also a prescription of pain medication. When Arumugam thought about it his headache worsened.

6. TENSE
I'm sorry I can't come on the field trip; I'm going back to Brunei.
By next Saturday, I will have completed my full course of antibiotics.
Last month, I had medical appointments.

7.PERIODS/COMMAS/CAPS/SPACES
Family doctors are crazy. Iknow doctors who never refer you to specialists. I also know those who refer you for minor headaches, or check their iphones for the latest information. That`s why I prefer to go to bthe walk-in clinic.

 8.PROPER NOUNS
Along University Boulevard in down town Toronto, there are so many health institutions, including Mount Sinai Hospital, Sick Kids Hospital, CAMH, Princess Margaret Hospital, and Toronto General Hospital.

 9. SPILLING
This Hospital has few patients but many psychiatrists, psychologists, cardiologists, surgeons, gynaecologists, acupuncturists and other specialist doctors. It's hard to find any non-specialist physicians there.

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