One of the most important pieces of writing advice I heard from a fellow student at Full Sail: Edit from the bottom up.
This means scrolling down to the bottom of the document and reading it, essentially, backwards, looking for grammar mistakes along the way.
We all think that our scripts and prose just flow from our brains with perfect clarity, but that isn’t always true. When reading through a piece of writing in the usual way our brains can fill in what might be missing, because we know what the words are supposed to say, even if they don’t actually say them.
When we read these sentences out of order, we can’t get lost in the genius of our own writing. We’re able to see when things may be unclear, missing important pieces of information, or sections that aren’t properly formatted.
Taking the time to go through your work like this requires you to actually do your work in advance though. So, perhaps consider not putting your assignments off until 11:01 pm on Saturday?
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