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1.Frist, use the grammar checker on your word processing program to check for simple grammar errors. Most grammar checkers now look for comma usage, run-on sentences, passive sentences, tense problems, and more. Using your judgment and the grammar checkers suggestions, edit your essay. But here you should be aware that creative writing commonly deploys a variety of writing skills and techniques that intentionally breaks the rules, such as run-on sentence and etc. So you need to judge on sentence by sentence basis. 2.Read through the essay and get an overall understanding about its thesis, content, overall layout, logical structure and development, dictions, sentence styles, main literary techniques and devices deployed, particular strength and apparent weakness. 3.Now focus on the thesis statement . Is it clear and easy to understand? What is the relation between the claimed thesis and actual content? Does the content of the essay properly support the thesis statement? If not, why? After this initial diagnosis, formulate a strategy to fix the problem, either by revisign the thesis statement to more closely relate to the content, or by conforming the content with the thesis. Here are some general rules governing the thesis statement: Strong thesis statement should take a clear stand; Strong thesis statement focuses on one idea, not two or more; Strong thesis statement is specific; | 
