Final Project
About an hour ago, I submitted my final project for my Copy-editing course. In addition to editing the text, we had to create a style sheet, a letter to the author, and an invoice. While the new additions would seemingly be the harder parts of the assignment, this was not the case. With the exception of the style sheet, which I am not a hundred percent certain I did correctly, I found these other tasks relatively easy in comparison to editing the paper. In my previous post, I complained about there not being obvious errors with a paper. Well this paper had too many obvious errors. There were many places where I wanted to simply rewrite the whole thing because I was unsure how to edit this without actually rewriting. So many sentences or even paragraphs were in illogical places! So many quotations were not properly integrated! How is the reader supposed to know who wrote the quote or why it is important if it is just thrown into the article? Though I am not incredibly adept at The Chic