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

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Demonstration: Making the piece read well

Demonstration: Making the piece read well

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

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Demonstration: Making the piece read well

- [Instructor] Okay guys so now we've really come to the part where we focus on the writing itself. So far we've been dealing with points and badly constructed sentences. And now is where we're gonna stitch it all together in terms of writing. I'm gonna take all the points and make them read and flow well together because we've got the infrastructure in place. We've got the elegant narrative together. And so what we're really trying to do now is just make it all read like good sentences, turning them into good sentences which are clear, which are elegantly written, and which are simple and not full of jargon and other stuff like that or redundant words. Now I'm doing this real-time so I don't nearly expect it to be perfect. I just want it to read well enough to show you how you might want to go about this process. So let's edit this to sound good. Now this first sentence I think is fine 'cause I added that in more recently. Sri Lankans will be able to make healthier choices about what…

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