Week 5 Jessica

The assignment "Dangling Modifiers and Parallelism" was difficult for me. I wanted to talk about sentence structure in my blog post this week because that assignment opened my eyes. As an editor, if I was given the sentences that we were meant to rewrite, I would be overwhelmed.

It is so important to compose a strong sentence from the get-go. You should never be reading a sentence and wondering, "What is the main point here?" Throwing around dangling modifiers and clauses that are unbalanced and poorly worded cloud up the meaning for your reader.

It is one thing to compose a descriptive, creative sentence. It is another to fill it with jumble and unnecessary adverbs and verbals. Once I attempted to rewrite the sentences from our assignment, I quickly became stumped. There are so many ways to organize sentences and they will still make sense. But I found myself always asking, "Is this correct? Is this the best sounding order I could have picked?"

For many of the sentences, the best option still didn't sound pleasing, which taught me that the initial sentence is very important. Write with intention, and give your sentences structure to share clear, concise ideas with your readers. They should never feel confused and need to reread a sentence because it was worded so awkwardly.

The photo pasted below is my editing mistake for the week. The mistake is the use of "everyday." If you are using "everyday" it is as an adjective. If you are using it as "every day" then it is an adverb. Since it is used as an adverb, there should be a space between the words. If it were, "My everyday routine," the usage would be correct because it describes the routine.