Editing paragraphs of a narrative in 'Whale Rider'

Editing is the process of making changes to improve our writing. To edit punctuation, missing or incorrectly used capital letters, full stops, inverted commas and commas are checked. When editing language, choices of words and phrases are carefully reviewed. Knowledge of synonyms is helpful to ensure vocabulary choices match their intended effect on the reader. When editing sentence structure, the way sentences are constructed is checked to improve and enhance text flow.