Survey Time: Editing your child's school work

SlackerMomMD
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:03:02 +0000

I was lucky to see any of D’s work. If I did read her papers, I would at most say a paragraph was unclear (“I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to say”) or if she repeated herself within the same paragraph or wrote a circular sentence. No editing. I have my own voice; she has her own voice. I’m not a professional writer, editor or teacher, so I have no clue how to edit without affecting her voice.

D is also slightly dyslexic so if she misspelled words, I would tell her she had misspelled words without pointing the specific words out. This was left over from her tutoring days - the tutor wanted D to recognized misspellings on her own (we all assumed she would have misspellings on the first draft so it was important that D could recognize these errors).

I did edit her resume for summer internships. I didn’t feel that was a problem, because I edit other people’s resumes as well. She wrote her own cover letters.