
The purpose of editing is to make
a passage easier to understand for the reader and to convey the writer’s exact
meaning. A writer is subjective, and to him/her, a sentence appears to say what
is in his/her mind, but to a reader, a punctuation error or the incorrect use
of a word can convey an altogether different meaning. That is one reason why a
document should be edited by someone else. A paper or essay needs to conform to
guidelines...