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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