<p>For those of you who read and edit, can we start a thread about how to best provide feedback.</p>
<p>Do you simply note the need to address word choice or do you offer up options?</p>
<p>What do you say when you think a student has chosen a poor topic. I volunteer in our high school’s Post Grad center and a student brought me an essay this week that focused on an incident where her mother almost died. The essay needed major over haul anyway, but I told her that I thought this topic was over done. Was that appropriate. Was I right? What topics have worn out their welcome?</p>
<p>Where do you start when an essay is a disorganized train wreck.</p>
<p>I’d appreciate hearing other issues experienced editors have and how they addressed them. I’d also love to see an essay that was edited by multiple readers to see how different people edited. Finally, if anyone has edited an essay that rocked their world, could they PM it to me or put me in touch with the writer so I can see an example of an excellent essay?</p>