Editing (Conventions and Mechanics): checking for correctness with self, teacher or peer(s); language usage; sentence structure; spelling; capitalization; punctuation; documentation of sources; using resources to support editing (e.g., spell check, dictionaries, thesauri, handbooks). Language Usage: students will apply knowledge of subject/verb agreement with both singular and plural subjects; students will apply knowledge of present, past and future tenses; students will apply knowledge of comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs; students will apply knowledge of special problems in usage, (e.g., a/an, to/two/ too, their/ there/ they’re), pronoun references and double negatives; students will apply knowledge of idiomatic expressions. Sentence Structure: students will correct run-on and awkward sentences; students will correct sentence fragments; students will combine short, choppy sentences effectively; students will combine simple sentences by using subordination and coordination; students will correct sentences with misplaced and/or dangling modifiers. Spelling: students will apply knowledge of spelling patterns, generalizations and rules to commonly used words; students will apply knowledge of spelling patterns, generalizations and rules to plural forms of words; students will apply knowledge of spelling patterns, generalizations and rules to contractions; students will apply knowledge of spelling patterns, generalizations and rules to change verb endings. Capitalization: students will capitalize proper nouns (e.g., names, days, months); students will capitalize the beginning of sentences; students will capitalize the pronoun “Iâ€; students will capitalize proper adjectives; students will capitalize first word in a quote when appropriate; students will capitalize the first word and every succeeding main word in a title. Punctuation: students will correctly punctuate declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative sentences; students will use commas in a series, a date, a compound sentence, the greeting and closing of a letter; students will correctly apply the rules of punctuation for commas in appositives, direct address and introductory phrases and clauses; students will correctly apply the rules of punctuation for apostrophes in possessives and letters and numbers of omission; students will correctly apply the rules of punctuation for periods in abbreviations and acronyms; students will correctly apply the rules of punctuation for semi-colons in items in a series and in correcting combined sentences; students will correctly apply the rules of punctuation for colons in introducing a list and in a business letter greeting; students will correctly apply the rules of punctuation for quotation marks in dialogue, titles and direct/indirect quotes. Documentation: students will document use of sources with a format acceptable to the discipline (e.g., MLA, APA).