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When you have already written some paper, here are some post-writing things, which you should do. One of them is a writing editing. In this article you are going to find the description of all the constituent parts of the writing editing, which ma help you not to fail with your paper writing. Writing editing is similar to proofreading the paper. This is the part of writing editing when you are aimed at reading the text of your paper, so that to find some spelling, grammar, punctuation or lexical mistakes (if any) and to correct them.

Thus, writing editing consists of:

Content

Have you managed to do everything required form the task? Have you completed the task within the specified purposes? Is the narration logically consistent? Have you supported all your results with the evidences?

Overall structure

Does your paper consist of introductory part, main body and conclusions? Have you clearly formulated the argument of your paper? Have you arranged the paragraphs in a logical way?

Structure within paragraphs

Does each paragraph possess a clear topic sentence? Does each paragraph have the main idea and stick to it? Are the transitions between the paragraphs clear?

Clarity

Have you provided the definitions of some terms, which may be unknown to your reader? Is it quite understandable to what each pronoun is referred to? Was the choice of the words quite reasonable? Does it express the main ides?

As you can see, you should make some efforts before you hand n your paper. Since when you proofread your paper, you will avoid the possibility of being a failure.

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Optimism is, perhaps, the most important characteristics that we all are short of. We all are so tired and depressed by a number of problems that it seems nobody can help us. Even God has forgotten about us.

They say a student life is the most cheerful period of life. Nonsense! Student life is the beginning of adult life, thus, the beginning of life full of problems and troubles. The passions run high when it concerns writing and editing a dissertation. Nobody said that writing and editing your dissertation will be easy. Still, you should know how to overcome the pressures caused by writing and editing your dissertation. How to do it? This is exactly what my article is devoted to! Here I am going to present you the tips on how to get rid of all troubles and learn to enjoy your student life.

Learn to balance between your study and your leisure. Actually, it is the problem of all students- they cannot organize their time so that they would have enough time for study as well as for their leisure;

Occupy yourself by your favorite hobby. It is very useful to be absorbed by your favorite hobby from time to time. For instance, if you like playing piano, find 30 minutes to play it, thus, to distract yourself from troubles;

Meet with your friends as frequently as possible. Your closest friends are the best elevators of your mood. They always come to the rescue if you are in despair or pressured. They will certainly share your intention to enjoy your student life together.

Writing and editing… These are really important components of a good paper. But sometimes you have too little time to perform both of them. And then the time to decide comes. What to decide? Decide what is more important of the two: writing or editing.

As you are short of time, you need to choose only one. And, of course, it can be only… writing.

Why writing if we always claim that editing cannot be avoided? It is obviously. How can you edit a paper if you have not written it? You cannot, of course. So, you cannot but prefer writing to editing in such a difficult situation.

However, there is another solution. You can try and finished writing faster. Then you will have time for editing your paper.

Unfortunately, this solution fits only experienced writers, or students who are quite skillful. If a person whose skills are not enough for writing a good paper fast will try to do it, it is certain that he or she will fail to cope with it well. Then, as the time still will press, you will try to edit a paper fast. It will result in quite a poor paper, because it is hard to edit an awful writing fast. Finally, you will waste a lot of efforts in vain.

So, if you are not experienced enough, you had better refused from editing a paper in order to devote more time to writing it. It will guarantee you at least a satisfactory result. And, who knows, may be you will eventually manage to prepare quite a good paper even without editing it.

Do you know that writing and editing are two of the most important things, which connect to your education project?

You should not only be prepared for perfect writing! Editing is also of high importance. Even if you manage to prepare your perfect writing, but editing does not take place in this process, then the results may simply disappoint you.

So, let us talk a bit about the importance of editing for your paper. There is no matter if you write an essay, or you prepare your coursework or even a dissertation, you should realize the importance of editing.

When you start editing your work, it is better to re-fresh you head before. It will be good, if you go for a walk, talk to your friends or something like this. If you have enough time, you may postpone your editing till tomorrow.

So, the time to edit your paper has come. You should think logically and be very attentive. Your editing process should improve the results of your work, so do it!

First of all, you should pay attention to the lexical side of your paper:

• whether all words are used in necessary meaning;
• whether all chapters present the information in a necessary order;
• whether there are no extra words in your paper;
• whether there are no repeated twice words.

Also, when you edit your work, you should pay attention to the mistakes, which are connected to:

• grammar;
• spelling;
• word usage;
• punctuation;
• stylistic.

If you are able now to realize that editing is really very important, then with time you will be ready to present a perfect editing. Of course, the awareness should come with time, but you can always speed up the process!

We decided to carry out a useless experiment. Why we claim it to be useless? We could have tried to persuade you that reading this article will change your life, and you will discover the secret of absolute happiness, and so on. But we do not feel like deceiving you.

The results of our experiment will not influence your life at all. You will just get to know if writing is more complicated than editing, or not.

Why do you need to know it? You do not need. But we expect to catch your interest by offering to read a useless article. As you are a student, you must be tired of reading only useful things which teach you something. You need to have a rest and to let your brain to relax. At the same time, you can get some new info. We expect it to attract you to go on reading. Eventually, you have already read a half of the article. Why not go on reading it?

The aim of our experiment is to discover which of the two is more complicated: writing or editing. To get an answer, we will conduct a comparative analysis:

• Writing presupposes you to create something new. However, editing requires you to correct something which is already created. Sometimes it is more difficult to correct than to create from scratch.
• Writing takes a lot of time and requires long planning. Editing is much faster. However, you need to repeat the procedure several time running, which also takes a lot of time.
• Writing allows you make mistakes. Editing requires you to correct all the mistakes. You have no right to miss any of them.

Comparing these statements, we came to a conclusion that editing is more complicated than writing. Hence, you should treat it more serious.