On Wednesday I met with the professor’s assistant from my writing class. When we met, she and I reviewed the research paper I had just gotten back the day before. She helped me think of ways I could rephrase some of my sentences and also helped me fix the grammatical errors in the paper. She actually was able to diagnose a problem with my general structure that I have never noticed before. Apparently for the last 15 years I haven’t been applying the rules of parallelism to my writing, and although I’ve never been penalized for it, it really showed me how little things I never think about it in my writing can make a huge difference when corrected.