Correction codes for writing
WRITING STANDS FOR… EXAMPLE
CORRECTION
CODE
MISSING WORD I listen music à I listen to
MW music.
WRONG SPELLING Happyness à happiness
WS
WRONG WORD / I use a dress for parties à
WW COLLOCATION I wear a dress for parties.
WRONG TENSE I’ve been to the butcher’s
WT yesterday à I went to the
butcher’s yesterday.
WRONG ORDER I have brown long straight
WO hair. I have long brown
straight hair.
WRONG PUNCTUATION . , : ; -
WP MARK
MISSING PUNCTUATION ! . ; ,
MP MARK
WRONG FORM I like go swimming à going
WF swimming
I want be à I want to be…
REPETITION / (REPETITION: The very
® same word has been
mentioned countless times
along the writing piece. You
should resort to a synonym.)
®® REDUNDANCY
It is a biography of her life.
She commutes to work.
WRONG REFERENCE / My friends are into
r CHECK REFERENCE swimming. He’s also keen on
jogging and…
I CAN’T UNDERSTAND
??? WHAT YOU MEAN /
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY
THIS? / NOT CLEAR
LACK OF SUBJECT-VERB My nephew study French. à
AG AGREEMENT My nephew studies French.
START A NEW
II PARAGRAPH
SAME PARAGRAPH
IIs
UNNECESSARY WORD / He looked after at his
UW OMIT IT baby.
MISSING LINKING A word that links two ideas
LW WORD or sentences is missing, like
conjunctions.
WRONG The whole sentence or idea
WS SENTENCE/STRUCTURE is wrongly typed/written.
Paraphrase it.
