During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standards of the Spanish language have been applied correctly helps the audience more easily comprehend the information because they do not have to interrupt their thinking to determine what the writer intended to say.

Spanish articles indicate the gender (feminine/ masculine) and number (singular/ plural) of a noun. Students should be able to use the correct gender agreement of the articles in both singular and plural forms. Spanish articles can be both definite and indefinite. Definite articles indicate specific nouns in both feminine/ masculine and singular/ plural forms. Singular definite articles are la (feminine) and el (masculine). For example, Mi tía Rosa está en la biblioteca pública; Los bomberos apagaron el incendio en la casa de la esquina. Plural definite articles are las (feminine) and los (masculine). For example, Los maestros de mi escuela son muy amables; En el zoológico, las jirafas siempre son una gran atracción. Indefinite articles refer to non-specific nouns that can also be feminine or masculine (una/ un) and singular or plural (uno/ unos). The following sentences exemplify indefinite articles in singular form. Una enfermera lo atendió de inmediato; En un bosque hay una gran variedad de animales. The following are some examples of indefinite articles in plural form, Los juguetes están en unas cajas rotuladas; Unos niños encontraron el balón de futbol.

Unlike common nouns that name general items (e.g., personas, ciudades, escuelas), proper nouns name specific people, places, or things, and they always begin with a capital letter (e.g., el Dr. López, Chihuahua, Escuela César Chávez). Students should understand that if they do not correctly capitalize proper nouns, they risk their readers not understanding that an unfamiliar word in the text is meant to refer to something specific and is not a misspelling or misuse of some other intended word. For example, if a student writes El perro chihuahua no es originario de chihuahua, the reader may find the idea this sentence expresses confusing. The use of capital letter in the word Chihuahua at the end of the sentence clarifies that this word refers to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and not to a breed of dogs, El perro chihuahua no es originario de Chihuahua.

standard rules of the Spanish language, including written mechanics such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, paragraphing, etc. and written/oral grammar such as parts of speech, word order, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure