Blog 56 - Commonplace Paper and Cool Editing Tools

So I thought that I'd have a lot of editing to do on my paper, but turns out I really didn't at all. I had done quite a bit of editing last week between classes while I was at the library since I don''t like to carry around my heavy books, and amazingly enough the editing that I had done then seemed to be pretty good so when I came back to do some more editing it was pretty much in it's final stages. I wrote my paper on stereotypes, using the example of all Asians are smart as my reference point since I've had to deal with that stereotype quite a bit. Anyway, I'm pretty proud of this paper, and it's probably because it actually connects to me. My ARP paper wasn't nearly as passionate, and that's probably why I disliked that paper so much more in comparison to this one.


If any of you haven't already heard about this, you probably should because its a GREAT tool for anytime you edit your own papers or edit other people's papers. It's called "Track Changes" and is found in word. All you have to do is go to the "review" tab, and somewhere in the middle-ish of the tab there is a box with a sheet of paper and a pencil that says "track changes." If you click on this, what it does is it essentially tracks all the changes you make to the paper by using handy things such as putting new text and other insertions in another color, and crossing out things you delete. I personally like to use the bubble feature for deleting things, which puts anything you delete into a side bubble and a dotted line will connect to the spot where you've deleted something. This setting can be enabled by going to the settings of track changes and making the bubble option for "always" or something like that. Whenever you want to accept or reject a change, you just right click the section and choose the option to "accept" or "reject." It's a great tool and so genius in it's simplicity.