From the course: Editing Mastery: How to Edit Writing to Perfection

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Demonstration: Addressing trip-ups

Demonstration: Addressing trip-ups

From the course: Editing Mastery: How to Edit Writing to Perfection

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Demonstration: Addressing trip-ups

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- [Instructor] Okay, so what we are essentially gonna be doing here is looking for, well, reading it through in one breath, as it were, although I will have to keep stopping. But we're looking for where we might trip up, so it's reading out aloud and seeing whether everything flows as well as it should. In the prior stages of this edit we've been deeply engaged in different types of perspectives. We've been looking for particular things, and we've been so deeply engaged that we haven't really had time to look at the way the whole thing just flows from beginning to end. And so you just follow along while I do that. But before we start, I just want you to recognize and just reflect on how much better this is already from where we started, okay? We've turned it from a really chaotic and rambling piece of writing into something that's interesting to read, really well-organized, and now we're just kind of putting those finishing touches to it as well as we can within the time that we've…

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