I never thought I needed an editor

When I was an undergrad student many years ago, I thought I was invincible. I thought my writing was so good that fI didn't even read my essays before handing them in. I did this for my whole undergraduate career, even though I would get my essays back all marked up in red ink. I thought, "Meh, profs are wrong and my writing is flawless."

Boy was I wrong.

My prose wasn't bad really, it just wasn't polished. I discovered during my masters degree that my writing really wasn't up to snuff. I knew how to write, I just made careless mistakes everywhere. And you know what, your reader can't tell the difference between bad writing and careless mistakes.

So I began to do the most simple of editorial tasks: re-reading my essays. At first I thought it was a waste of time because I could have spent that time doing other things. But as soon as I got my papers back, I realized that the 20 minutes I spent re-reading my work was well worth it. It's a critical step in the writing process.

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(Yes, I did edit this before I posted!)