- SYN: faulty syntax
- GR: faulty grammar
- AWK: awkward wording or awkward expression of idea.
- SP: faulty spelling
- PRON: missing or faulty pronoun.
- AGR: faulty agreement (grammar.)
- T: incorrect tense (grammar.)
- M: incorrect mood (grammar.)
- //: lack of correct parallelism
- ¶ : faulty paragraph structure
- CAP: capitalise
- MM: mixed metaphor
- NO CAP: don't capitalise
- WDY: excessive, roundabout or unhelpful wording that obscures the argument.
- ARG: argument required.
- DEV: faulty development of the argument
- D: faulty diction (e.g. use of jargon or informal idiom.)
- PASS: passive (usually adjectival rather than adverbial) form
- WC: faulty word choice
- WW: wrong word
- RELEV: irrelevant remark.
- PETITIO: a petitio principii ('begging the question')—assuming as a conclusion that which needs to be established as a premis. Often in essay argument, a statement delivered as a proof which itself is as yet unproven.
- UNCL: unclear expression of an idea
- REP: repetitive wording or repetition of a previously-presented idea.
- REL: faulty relation of idea or no clear relation to surrounding idea.
- TRUISM: statement of the obvious: unnecessary.
- P: faulty punctuation.
- ITAL: italicise this text.
- DEL: unnecessary text requiring deletion
- PLEON: pleonasm
- REPORT: book report--i.e. absence of argument.
- CIT: missing citation
- DANGL: dangling modifier.
- STR: faulty or absent argument structure.
- R-O: run-on sentence.
- FRAG: sentence fragment
- THESIS: misplaced thesis-level sentence
- X: false statement.
- SS: faulty sentence structure
Friday, October 30, 2009
Copy-Editing Symbols
Follow this link, as well as this other link, for a legend of the standard copy-editing symbols used in the marking of your essays
Some of the more frequently-used are the following.
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