Revise the thumbtack paper you wrote last week. For some of you, the revisions will be fairly minor. Most of you, however, will probably need to do a major revision.

I'm adding a little twist to the revision. You must now assume that your readers are mathphobic. Not only are they scared of measurements, but they also completely stop reading when they encounter words like "perpendicular" or "diameter".

Common Mistakes

Try to avoid the problems noted in the following table.

Here are some helpful reading passages from the Mayfield Handbook:

• Revising Organization (Section 1.8)

• Revising Content (Section 1.9)

• Topic Sentences (Section 5.1.1)

• Paragraph Development (Section 5.3 and all its subsections)