Sample Editing Checklist 1: Small Businesses and MLA

FLAGGING:

Toronto Enterpriest profess to be”  an innovative public and private sector  alliance ,its create

to prowide one stop sourcing sarvices and program were Taylor to meet the needus for Torontos ENTREPRENEURS and small business

THE CHASE IS ON:

EDITING CHECKLIST (Small Biz + MLA)—Check for the following:

1. PREP (Preposition)

The new chairman Bata told to the people the founder’s courage. Fear was for one thing Mr Tomas Bata would not put up.

2. SVA (Subject-Verb Agreement)

Most startups fails within their first three years.

One of the top fifty entrepreneurs were given the province’s R&D award.

3. CS (Comma Splice)

Sometimes people start a business as an ego trip, that ends badly, some of them regard the lost investment as school fees for an education, although it is painful, they don’t react so badly to their failure.

4. FRAG (Fragment)

While knocking on doors in Scarborough introducing his new services.

Which you prefer? Prefer five-year loan or ten-year loan?

5. RUN-ON SENTENCE

Business plans are some of the most important things to have in Silicon Valley everybody used to have a business plan and an elevator pitch to give the impression that you’re a smart businessperson you had to be ready to introduce your company and service at any moment.

6. TENSE

When he will achieve his first million dollars, Ganesan hopes to buy a Ferarri.

He was bought and sold properties while he was worked in his twenties.

He is always believing he must to believed in himself.

7. PERIODS/COMMAS/CAPS/SPACES

Money is Fickle .it can make you HAPPY or Sad.But it cannot change your life .IT is not    wise to lay up

treasures on earth ,where they     can be destroyed by MoTh or Rust.

8. MLA

Tom Meaghers & Susan Traver. “Low wages, Srong Bocks.” The New Jersey Herald, P91. Print.

George, Lane .”Dude,Wheres MY Job.” Writing: a Journy. Ed .Lester, Faigley and Melanie Reuben. Toronto: Person, 2011 .(240_245).  Print

9. SPELLING

Two estart aa bigguh pooder bidness lack Madonna inwollwoo geting eh restauranter lesson, hells insbection, sarvice treening, anda a finansher alone, vitch requeer de entrepreneur too fox ontoo Manny sings.

ANSWER KEY FOR 9. SPELLING

To start a big food business like McDonalds involves getting a restaurant licence, health inspection, service training, and a financial loan, which requires the entrepreneur to focus on too many things.