Editing your self intro

By Cheryl Magnant, M.A., M.A.

THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE BOLD

The beautiful and the bold

The Beautiful and the Bold

Capitalization rules for titles (x2): Capitalize 1st and last words of titles

Capitalize all content words

Capitalization rules for titles (x2): Capitalize 1st and last words of titles

Capitalize all content words

non-content words are:

Prepositions

Conjunctions

Articles

gone with the wind

to kill a mockingbird

a midsummer night’s dream

the girl nisa: a story of growing up in a ¡kung society

Be interesting:

Introduction

Let Me Introduce Myself

Everything about Me

Be brief:

Where can you learn about Ju-min?

If you presume about my name, my intro will tell you

more.

The Beautiful & the Bold!!!

I unfortunately failed the entrance exam , not once but twice ㅠㅠ.

BTW, I wanna go 2 c the show b4 Saturday if mom will lemme. Man, you gotta come & bring your friends. That kind of show rocks!!!

When I was growing up, I studied in NZ for a time and then later in the US.

In four years I plan to graduate from KU with a double major. The plan is to get a 4.0 or higher GPA so that I can enter Stanford.

My favorite show is CSI, and it makes me want to be a PD.

When I was growing up, I studied in New Zealand (NZ) for a time and then later in the United States (US).

Making wishes on falling stars can’t guarantee your wish being realized.

It’s an interesting story worth telling again.

If they want children, why don’t they try to adopt?

Mom said that I shouldn’t go home late.

Mom shouted, “Don’t come home late!”

Numbers with two digits or more - acceptable My grandmother had 10 children, 7 boys and 3

girls. My grandmother had 10 children, seven boys and

three girls.

Numbers at the beginning of sentences

1986 was a pivotal year for South Korea.

The year 1986 was a pivotal year for South Korea.

In 1986 South Korea became recognized

internationally by many other countries.

Numbers telling time – acceptable

They will be busy until 3pm.

They will be busy until 3 p.m.

Numbers and hyphenation do not mix The 13-year-old girl became a cheer leader.

Humanities (H) & science/math (SM) are different!He ran forty-two kilometers and drank sixteen ounces of water every hour. (H)

He ran 42 kilometers and drank 16 ounces of water every hour. (H)(SM)

He ran 42 km and drank 16 oz of water every hour. (SM)

FANBOYS I invited him. And he came. We enjoyed some delicious ice cream at Baskin

Robbins. But that night we both were sick.

Because … Because I really did not understand the map.

Especially … Especially we like listening to Korean pop (K-pop).

We like listening to music, especially we like listening to Korean pop (K-pop).

We especially like listening to Korean pop.

Especially because we like Korean pop, we went to that concert last night.

half won pea sea. Its good four low-catingmiss steaks inn my righting.

Butt if ewe dont ewes a spell chequer, U vary likely will half sum problems that wood bee embarrassing two tale yore friends a bout.

Your writing check-list:

Capitalization of titles

Structure of titles

Punctuation, Emoticons, Symbols & Slang

Acronyms

Contractions

Using numbers

Fragments

Spelling & Spelling Checkers

Proof-reading & Editing