Blog 5

Ideas: A comment that I wrote under this category is when I addressed her claims. I  noticed that her claims were not entirely clear within the beginning of each paragraph, and to make claim sentences that go along with what she is saying in her thesis. I feel that this suggestion fits under this category because I’m giving her an idea to enhance her paper. Also the prompt said that claim sentences were apart of “ideas”.

Evidence: A comment that I wrote was to elaborate on her ideas after she used a quote by Erard. She picked out a great quote that supported her argument nicely, but I suggested to dive deeper afterwards and add onto it, in  her own words. This fits into the “evidence” category because I’m giving her suggestions to strengthen her evidence, to strengthen her essay.

Organization: Organization wise, I made a comment on how she used too long of a quote, that took up almost a whole paragraph. This goes under organization because a long quote can disrupt the flow and organization of a paper.

Prioritizing global editing rather than local editing at first was hard. I was tempted to continue to fix grammar errors, sentence structure, commas, etc., because that’s what I was taught in high school. I feel as though global editing is more important in the long run, and will allow the writer to focus on the “meat” of the paper rather than small stuff(although still very important). A writer can easily themselves detect grammar issues, etc., but it is hard for them to do the other stuff because they don’t have “fresh eyes”. I did do very minimal local editing because some stuff was bothering me, but for the most part I stuck to global editing.

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