Chapter Seventeen is all about revising and editing your document/paper/report/work as you go along. The first section is explaining the importance of considering your stance and topical of your paper. This is important because as you revise your work you want to be sure you are consistent. The second section goes over different strategies you can use during your revision process such as highlighting arguments and main points, using another set of eyes, and multiple drafts. The third section goes over main focus points to advise while editing such as grammar errors, consistency, accuracy, and economy. The last section goes over strategies for editing which includes careful reading, physically marking your paper, and having someone else go over your paper.
These are all important factors because as we begin to write and rewrite our papers over long periods of time, we tend to change this or that without thinking about the overall flow of the paper. Those 3AM sessions really kill us in these areas because when we begin to consider these factors while revising and editing, we spend a lot more time rewriting due to careless mistakes. This chapter teaches us how to fix those mistakes.
Chapter Eighteen is about design and lay out of your paper. The look says just as much as the paper itself. This goes over how to achieve a professional and clean design. It states that we aren't designing the paper for ourselves, we are designing it to appeal to our readers and that is an important factor to keep in mind. Design includes different fonts, headings, subheadings, layout elements, shading, boarders, illustrations and graphs, line spacing, and alignment.
These are all important factors because if we don't take this into account while laying out our paper, we may end up designing a paper that appeals to children instead of the scientific community or vise versa. So keeping in mind the audience while picking out all of those features is imperative detain work that must be taken into account.
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