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

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

Students are expected to use subordinating conjunctions in their writing as a tool to determine the relationship between the ideas in a sentence. Students should understand that a subordinating conjunction has two functions. First, it provides a necessary transition between the two ideas in the sentence. This transition will indicate a time, place, or cause and effect relationship. For example, El maestro le dio una segunda oportunidad porque mostró una actitud más responsable. The second function of the subordinate conjunction is to reduce the importance of one clause so that a reader understands which of the two ideas is more important. The more important idea belongs in the main clause, the less important in the clause introduced by the subordinate conjunction. In the following example, the less important clause is being introduced by the subordinating conjunction whenever: Mientras leía tenía un diccionario a la mano, ya que había muchas palabras que no entendía.