Responding-Really Responding-to Other Students’ Writing by Richard Straub taught me a lot about writing and editing a paper. This article also showed a sense of not judging a book by its cover. Just like you should not look at a book or really anything in particular and make a full judgement about it, so too you should know every aspect of a person’s writing before making an edit. The article describes that if you were to edit someone’s paper, you would not want to change it as if it were your own. This is due to the fact that you might not understand the goal or background of the assignment. The teacher for example, could have been looking for something in particular to emphasize on, that the reader might not know about. I think therefore as an editor, it might be helpful to give your input on someone else’s work and make comments, but you might not necessarily want to change something, with or without approval. I think this assignment also brought up the fact that you also need to have a good balance of criticism but at an appropriate time and done the right way. This is similar to what we discussed in class when voicing our opinions on being in a hybrid class. A lot of our work is done online and we respond to other people’s work. This was seen in a positive light, but at the same time did have some negative aspects to it as well because you have to make sure your writing does not come off as harsh to the author. Body language is hard to get a sense of when reading, because there is no physical emotion connected to it as well and therefore when making any edit or suggestion you need to make sure it is appropriate and done only in an uplifting way.