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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s be honest here.

What exactly did you look at in this process (EA/ED/REA)?
Did you edit? 
Directly revise? 
Or just take over entirely?

What’s next?[/quote]

Honestly? I revised directly in google docs. [/quote]

Same. DD was sitting next to me as we talked through the edits. I’m just much better at making the cuts to get the word count down. It was definitely collaborative.

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Wow. Sounds like you should be at least a co-applicant. You should not be typing in google docs or writing.

For mine, I gave feedback w/ Google docs comments. We also chatted about problem spots or paring essays down, but she came up w/ syntax for problem spots. I identified spots that I wasn't sure worked -- syntax, tense, boring wordiness etc. Or, I'd ask something like -- you say this, but the context indicates you're heading here. Where are you going? Or, do you really like Sartre? What teen really likes Sartre? -- you need to sell that or qualify it unless you want to sound pretentious or like your parent wrote it! My suggestions were things like maybe using parentheses here, or saying that one sentence was really effective and maybe lead w/ that.

It should be coaching/feedback. Not editing/writing.
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NP. Reading these it sounds like you both did the same thing. She "talked" you "chatted." You both helped in the exact same way, who cares who actually typed the edits. [/quote]

Nope. I didn't tell her what to say or directly impact the essay. You extrapolated "chatted" to mean dictated in my case and the opposite for the other poster. Try to justify this as you might.[/quote]

Well, you're a terrible editor. You've got a revisionist history.

You wrote:

"We also chatted about problem spots or paring essays down..."

"I identified spots that I wasn't sure worked -- syntax, tense, boring wordiness etc"

Why are you so defensive about what you wrote? LOL. [/quote]

I'm not, but you seem to have reading comp issues. None of that is writing.  To say something isn't working is called feedback. That's what I did. That isn't remotely the same as opening the google doc and rewriting the kid's words. But keep trying to claim that rewriting is the same as offering feedback to justify cheating the process.[/quote]

Your "coaching" seems a lot like "editing" to me. Why? Because you wrote that's exactly what you did. You can deny it all you want, but you're not better than the woman whose daughter sat right next to her and "talked through the edits," who you so willfully condemned.

Me thinks you doth protest too much.  [/quote]

I can see you are desperate to try to make this a thing. Again, work on that reading comp. None of what I said indicates editing. I didn't make any fixes or write anything or suggest specifics.  It's called feedback. Same as an English teacher would give. This is what I wrote:

" I identified spots that I wasn't sure worked -- syntax, tense, boring wordiness etc. Or, I'd ask something like -- you say this, but the context indicates you're heading here. Where are you going?"

Deal with your own demons, but leave me out of it. 
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DP
Editing, feedback…it’s all the same. Just because you gave the suggestion to rewrite but didn’t do the rewrite itself is really irrelevant. It’s all editing. [/quote]

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