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Day after day Mrs. Nikki Wilson has to revise and edit and she must do that work to her own lesson plans and to her students’ assignments. You can tell by the look on her face that the job gets boring. She does the same thing over and over again. She loves her job but she gets tired of it because it is very exhausting. Nikki Wilson is an English Teacher at Seagraves High school, and is one of the best English teachers I have ever had. She has to write every single day of work, if it is not at night it is in the morning. She has to write lesson plans and she has to write reports of how each class is going. She has a class almost every single period of the day, and almost all of those classes are doing something different. Mrs. Wilson is also …show more content…

I knew that you had to write articles and columns. Part of the writing I never knew about is the fact that you have to edit your articles, your column, and other writers’ articles. I completely understand why you would have to edit your articles, I mean you always want them to be the best they can be before you put them in the paper for the public to see. I do not know if I would want my own column, it seems like the amount of work you put in just to get one is outrageous, and the amount of work you have to do so it is a good column is even crazier. Editing other writers’ articles seems like the hardest part of the job right there. You have to edit it and find the errors but sometimes you do not know what errors are and what are not. The writer could have put them in their article for a reason and they could be very …show more content…

Even though I do not like to write, writing a story for the newspaper, or column, or even just having a story over me would make me change my entire perspective at that moment. It excites me to hear about the way people will tell you good job in public after they have read it, or tell you that they really enjoyed reading your piece. “It makes me happy when people from the community tell me they enjoy my writing.” (Wilson) Editing is one of my least favorite parts of writing to do. Editing my own papers make me sick, I cannot even imagine if I had to edit someone else’s writing. Pointing out mistakes and grammar issues are not a problem, but the way that I was told you have to edit other writers’ articles is just plain out scary. I would not want to mess up and totally ruin or change a writer’s paper. “This can be frustrating, but I take pride in what we do. It has our name on it—I want it to look good.”

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