Self-editing a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'

Editing is a critical part of the writing process. A growth mindset helps us benefit most from editing. Writing is most successful when editing is used to rethink, rephrase and reconsider first ideas. Editing is most successful when it is chunked by punctuation, sentence structure, vocabulary and cohesive devices. We can connect ideas in a range of different ways, using different cohesive devices - there is rarely only one way. We use a less formal tone when quoting real people's speech; we use a formal tone elsewhere in our text.