Long paragraphs and sentences should be edited, as they can be delicate to read. Therefore, the sentences should not be greater than two to three segments. Avoid writing long paragraphs. It can be done by writing a new paragraph after writing three to four sentences. A space should be between paragraphs when you are typing your essay. The other way of keeping sentences to realistic length is to go through the sentences you have written and then try to tighten up the wording. If you find yourself, writing long sentences, then try to reword them in order to express concisely. Sometimes students use complicated words instead of simple words in order to indicate that they are too intelligent. This thing does not make you intelligent and it might possible that you have chosen a wrong synonym without realizing that even a close synonym can have different connotation or meaning.
Sometimes students repeat the same concept and wording while writing essays. It is not possible to realize the repetitiveness when writing essay, but the editing process enables you to spot it before the submission of essay to the teacher. While reading through your essay delete the sentences or ideas, which is repeated. Avoid repeating the words. It is fine to repeat some words such as obvious, but try to write a close synonym if you have to write in the same paragraph. Try to rephrase the sentences. The words that are unusual should be used once in a paragraph. The spelling mistakes are common in the essay and other academic writing. Sometimes the software, check spelling mistakes for you, but do not fully rely on them. For example, you want to write the word form, but you, unconsciously you write the word from which still is a correct word so the spell checker will not correct it for you.
Editing will help you to remove the spelling mistakes as well as highlight the punctuation mistakes. Quotations from authors should be attributed to them. Appearance of essay matters and formatting should be neglected when you are in editing mode. Sometimes students use too many commas in one sentence. This expresses the sentence to be odd and broken and the reader has to read the sentence several times in order to understand what the student is trying to say in the sentence. The commas should be used where you would pause the sentence. After using comma, read the sentence loudly to know whether the sentence makes any sense or logic. Semicolons should be used in order to connect two independent clauses.
