Do you edit an essay for grammar and spelling errors in a rough draft?

First, use a good spelling and grammar software program to catch the basic errors. Edit those to the correct forms. Next. read through the essay backwards - start at the end and read every Word backwards to the beginning. That will help you to see errors that your spelling program might not have caught, like using "your" instead of "you're" or "two" instead of "to." Finally, read the essay out loud and make sure it sounds like proper English. With these three tricks, you'll catch almost every error in your essay!