During my two decades as a college professor, I commented on scores of student essays. I did so confidently and authoritatively. I was never one to focus on grammar and punctuation too too much—for me, the ideas should always take precedent—but I would circle and annotate all the errors I found.
When I started editing professionally, I quickly lost my …
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