March 29, 2010

Bad Editor

Hey Internet,

So I had some assignment edited by someone in my class and I read it around 5 minutes ago and boy it was some terrible editing that person did.

First off, he was able to track changes, but he was unable to make comments, so he put a little insertion at the end of the paragraph that needed a bit of changing. He did very little editing (of course) and he added or removed some words that should be there.

His editing didn't make any sense to me.

Well, I edited his assignment and I tried my best. I omitted any unnecessary words and made decent comments. He would insert a word in the middle of the sentence where it only stated one person and the word "he" and he would put "WHO?", all in capital letters. Also, he barely made any changes. With me, at least one change per paragraph, and that's still bad for me.

Well, when I sent him his copy that I edited, I added a little note saying not to edit my work until he learns to edit work (it was a polite note).

Well, that's the end of my story, what's yours? Have you had a bad editor? Are you one of them who can't edit for beans? Post your comments below.

Thanks for reading,
-personhere

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