Editing and proofreading are skills that take years to learn to master for professional editors. The reality is that students do not have this much time to master these skills. Students need an efficient and effective way of editing and proofreading their assignments. Therefore, by developing a rubric using the 4C/ID model, professors can avoid any cognitive overloading by breaking each part of the editing and proofreading process down into little steps.
Participants will learn how to develop rubrics using the 4C/ID-model for editing and proofreading. These rubrics also develop students’ metacognitive knowledge of have a better understanding of the writing process, which builds their understanding of each phase of it better. In addition, they begin to develop the mindset that professional editors possess the editing and proofreading process, and develop the analytical skills they need in the real world.