Collect five pages of writing you have prepared for college courses. Now review “Ten Ways to Make Your Writing Easier to Read.” Mark places in your writing where you have had problems with those guidelines and identify which of the guidelines those places violate. Which guideline seems to give you the most trouble in your five pages? Would you agree with your findings? Or do you think your five pages are atypical of your writing? If you do not agree with your findings, which of the guidelines do you think generally gives you the most trouble?

Now trade pages with a partner. Read your partner’s pages and mark places where they had problems with the 10 guidelines.

Retrieve your own pages. Did your partner find some problems you missed?

On the basis of this exercise, as well as your knowledge of your own writing, write an email to your instructor explaining which of the guidelines (choose just two or three) you most need to work on. Give problem sentences from your writing as evidence.

Below the text of the email, correct the problem sentences you used as evidence.