On Editing

This post originally appeared on BooksLive on 11 June 2013 On Editing I watch people’s eyes widen with disbelief, ‘You’re going to teach the kids what?’ Editing. Rewriting. Doing it all over again. ‘Even the seven year olds?’ Especially the seven year olds. I wasn’t introduced to the true concept of rewriting until I was in high school. Even then, it was presented more as a method to catch spelling and grammatical mistakes. To this day, I do not understand why this skill isn’t given greater emphasis. In maths one of the first things I was taught, after the basic...