Chapter 5: Reading Your Own Sentence

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   Sprint 5.1: The Four-Question Check

   Learner runs one four-question check over a sentence and names which chapter each question comes from.

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2. 02

   Sprint 5.2: Finding Errors In Someone Else's Writing

   Learner finds and names all four fault types in unfamiliar text, which is the easier half of self-editing and builds the eye for the harder half.

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3. 03

   Sprint 5.3: Finding Errors In Your Own

   Learner finds faults in text they wrote themselves, using techniques that defeat reading-what-you-meant.

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4. 04

   Sprint 5.4: The Two Errors You Personally Repeat

   Learner identifies their own two most frequent faults and builds a two-item check to run before submitting anything.

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5. 05

   Sprint 5.5: Editing Under Time

   Learner runs their two-item check on a paragraph in ninety seconds, which is the realistic amount of checking time Task 2 leaves.

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   Sprint 5.6: Simple And Correct Beats Complex And Broken

   Learner chooses the structure they can control, and knows when reaching for a complex sentence lowers the band.

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7. 07

   Sprint 5.7: Course Review — A Paragraph From Scratch

   Learner writes a Task 2 paragraph from scratch, checks it with their own two-item check inside the time budget, and receives a report by fault category across the whole course.

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