Cut and Grow. Cut and grow is an editing strategy. The procedure is as follows:
1. Select a sentence in your paper that you would like to improve.
2. With scissors, cut the selected sentence out of the paper.
3. Tape the top half of the paper onto a piece of construction paper.
4. Create an improved sentence with academic language specific to content area, genre, and topic to write on the construction paper.
5. Attach revised sentence to the rest of the paper.