oh the joy of editing!! I just wrote a 1000+ word essay and edited it four times along with getting 2 teachers to look at it.. I started writing it 4 or so days ago and got half way through it only to start again and I am sure that I read each pargraph 5+ times as I write it and 3+ times as I proof read it. I also done a major swap of the paragraph orders which ment reading them about 7 times over and over again making sure it soulded and flowed right.. fun!
acording to my amazing calculations thats 25500+ (take careful note of the plus!)
my little word calculator... x=amount of words in peice === x*25.5 = amount of words read
(essay) 1320 * 25.5 = 33660 which is close to half of a novel
(project proposal) 2336 * 25.5 = 59568 = 20000 words off an entire novel
(last three blogs I read) 1101+784+871= 2756 which is 1000 words of half of a novel
hmm... so thats close to 2 entire novels in a week marianne...... ;)
but on a serious side, I can actually see the point in editing i mean, through editing... once i finished the essay I read through it and desided that the order wasnt right and it didnt flow proporly.. last year I would have just left it but instead I swapped it around and read it 50 billion times! but in the end I was happier with the result and glad i put in the extra effort...
and to thing that I just finished a 1300 word essay and came here to blog about it ...
... something must be wrong!
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