Thursday, July 21, 2011

Example edit

I'm working on another foreign policy paper.

The author had titled it: In-Depth Analysis of.....


Of course, I unleashed the red strikethrough on Word 1.

It sounds like bragging. It's otiose. And it is, alas, completely inaccurate.

As is usual with these dunderheads, the quality of research and "analysis" is, at best, what you might expect from a moderately bright 16-year-old who reads the newspapers regularly.

I was tempted to replace with Superficial Survey, but I restrained myself and made do with the deletion of In-Depth.

First word, first edit - this is usually how it goes.

Well, in fact, (as you might have spotted, eagle-eyed reader) the first edit was Word -1: I inserted the indefinite article An at the beginning.

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