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For our purposes, we will define editing as fixing mechanical errors in your writing. When you are editing you are looking at what we call “lower level issues.” These are going to be things like spelling, punctuation, and issues in syntax, or how your sentences are constructed. Editing should be the very last thing you do. Think about it: you don’t want to fix the punctuation of a sentence just to have to rewrite that whole sentence to make your point, right?
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