Writing Book 6 · Lesson 7

Correctness

Correctness is the layer of an essay that has right answers — so it is dealt with first and got out of the way.

What you read today

Essay Voyage, pages 1–5 — the chapter Correctness.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.

Ask yourself: “Is this something I can CHECK, or something I have to judge?”

Fix what can be checked before judging what cannot.