No college or university student needs to be taught how to write; still it would be a salutary lesson for some of them to be told the basic rules of editing a text. It is not a problem to write an e-mail letter, a note, or an ICQ message, but more sophisticated and complex works (such as research papers or proposals, personal statements and essays) demand post-writing attention. The editing procedure, as a rule, starts after the first draft of your paper is ready. You edit by extending, enlarging, and choosing appropriate vocabulary and grammar constructions as well as by other means. Still, there are several secrets of more effective editing and they presuppose several text layers to work with, including:

• paper content;
• structure of the proposal;
• style of your narration;
• citation and formatting rules, etc. Continue reading →