Blog #15

I had the pleasure of editing a paper by a lady taking a research method class.  I will call her Brittany.  Brittany is very smart and I think she is going to school to be a journalist.  Her writing was amazing.  She writes very professionally and it was quite easy editing her work.  She puts enough verbiage that keeps the you interested in the story, but doesn’t write so professionally that feel as if you are reading stereo instructions.  I was surprised that she asked me to review her work, since she is so great at writing and I consider myself well beneath her on skills.  I found very little errors in her work.  The one thing I did do was look up many of the rules for AP style to make sure her or I was writing or thinking the right thing.  The only other mistake I found was some simple grammar errors that I am sure her brain skipped over.  

I am glad that I had the opportunity to work “with” Brittany on her writing project.  I hope my input helped her writing move to another level of greatness.  She is an amazing writer and knowing that she trusted me to look over her work was an honor.  I enjoyed that she also wanted to read my work and took that as her acknowledgment that she considers me a good writer too.  The reading stated that another important part of being a good editor is to not forget to get out and write.  Everything I have learned in this class is in one way or another; the key to becoming better is practice.