Edit Galore!

    After reading through all these chapters about editing I realize truly how unprepared I was to edit my academic papers or papers in general. Easily the most interesting thing in all of these chapters was agreeing subject and verb tenses. I had to read both the draft and the corrected sentence multiple times to ensure I understood why one was correct and why one was not. They both seemed correct half of the time and the other half the incorrect one was written in a way I would compare to my own. I learned a lot from just this section and the proper way to use agreeing verb tenses in a way that taught me some of what I thought I knew was incorrect.

    I think every chapter has some kind of lesson: from punctuation, comma splices, incomplete sentences, subject verb agreement, etc all pertain information we could all learn from. None of us are perfect and thus all have something to learn. Personally I found many small flaws and gaps in my knowledge of basic grammar that could immensely help with my editing. I can use this to edit everything from peer review editing to just editing between drafts. Even though most of the topics brought up in this section are all small and seemingly insignificant topics they all can be the final factor that brings your paper from a good paper to an excellent paper. The paper that brings joy and excitement to your English professor when they read your paper for the first time. 

Happy editing!