Revising and Editing

Reconsidering your ideas, examining your paragraphs, checking your style and grammar.

Parallel Structure

Parallelism is a grammatical structure that helps readers easily comprehend a sentence, paragraph, or text. It consists of using words with the same function to clearly express two or more ideas of equal importance.

Examples:

My classmate has a black belt, a white t-shirt and a blue cap.

Usability, accessibility and comprehensibility are the key points of a good technical document.

People are more polite in the South than they are in the North.

Writers need to pay attention to parallelism when words appear in a series, when they appear in pairs, and when their sentence structures having them doing comparisons using prepositions or subordination.

Source

Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007.