HUNTER COLLEGE READING/WRITING CENTER
THE WRITING PROCESS
Proofreading: Editing Practice (Exercise B)
     Proofread the essay below twice.  Read it the first time 
for structure.  Does it have proper essay structure?  If so,
where should the divisions into paragraphs be?  Use the paragraph
sign, , to indicate where a new paragraph should begin. 
Proofread again for sentence structure, consistency of tense,
person, and number, subject-verb agreement, et cetera.  Try to
find seventy errors.


Decisions
As I get older I began to feel that no decision is simple, almost any time I have to make a decision there seem to be as much to be said for one of the solution as there is for the other. I use to think you just had to get wise enough to recognize the "right" answer. Now I think the problem is, that you have to stick to your decision after youve made it without looking back and without regrets. I think that wavering between possibility after you have make a decision cause more trouble than anything else, take the question of marriage for example, a question on which there is certainly two side. Their must be alot to be said for marriage because people keeps on getting marry. Its attractions are obvious, in marriage they expect to have that warm place where they can alway go and find someone who put them first, who care for you more than anyone else in the world. This someone wil listen to all you problem and be sympathetic, this someone will love your friends and hate your enemies. This someone will care about whether you are fed, clothe, happy, and sexually satisfy. The two of you will have children and will share the joys of bringing them up. No one else will ever understand you and your life the way this ideal companion will. On the other hand marriage must be a real letdown; because people keep on getting divorce. This someone you married will have need that may conflict with yours. You may fine that your place is not so warm because your partner put hiself or herself first, and may also put other people first; amother, the children, a friend, another lover. You may both have problems at the same time and neither one was willing to listen, you may hate each other friend and like each others enemies. You may find that you both need the same dollar for differnt purpose, so you each may be jealous of what the other eat, wear or do for fun. They may have different sexual needs, and they may want someone else once and a while. You will almost certainly fine that children are demanding, difficult and puts a big strain on the relationship. Maybe you're companion won't understand you at all. Some people stay in their marriage and others don't. I don't think that the people who stay together neccessarily have better marriage material between them than the ones who doesn't. I think that the people who stay together are the one who stick with their decisions and work to make them work. They figure that the problems of the divorced are differnt but just as bad, and they might as well keep trying in the situation of there choice. In general I approve of this position because if their is just as much to be say for marriage as there is for nonmarriage what is the use of shilly-shallying back and forth? In the conduct of my life I intend to make my decisions and then to work too make them work.
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