Now comes the time to look for eventual mistakes in your story! Here are a few tips to make it almost mistakeless and even more perfect!

1- If you can, put your story aside for a few days or a few hours.

2- When you take it out again, read it over a few times and try to look out for your own mistakes.

3- When your teacher lets you some free time to work on your story in class, find yourself a partner that you feel comfortable with. You will have that partner read your story over. Partners are good, they can give you their own opinion about your story in general. For example, they could suggest that you choose another name for the main character. Most importantly, partners can find mistakes more easily because it is not their work! Think about it!

Evaluation Criteria

You will be graded on the following criteria:

1- originality: does the story sound like one that already exists? If so, was there plagiarism? If so, there will be no mercy in the evaluation! Plagiarism doesn't lead you anywhere!

2- accuracy: does the story holds itself? Do the sentences make sense? Do they follow a certain pattern or do they seem to have been added on just to fill out some room? After reviewing your story several times, it should be readable, especially if you had it read by a partner.

3- language use: were there mistakes left out that you could have avoided easily?

AND FINALLY,

4- presentation: did you put any images, drawings or any other element that might appeal to the eye and make the reader want to go further in reading your story?