remember that WTF grad student paper from last week? the revised version is SO MUCH CLEARER. I wish more advisors would work with editors/coaches for their research groups. Not every advisor can explain *why* to do things in a generalizable way, even if they are good writers

and unless the student is already a pretty good writer *or* is extremely hungry to learn, simply making edits isn& #39;t that helpful in the long run. they need to have the principles explained to them alongside the edits as models of *how* to carry out those principles.

I changed "a SNP" to "an SNP" and explained the rule about the pronunciation of the first letter. B/c I explained it, he taught me something: "SNP is pronounced as & #39;snip& #39; by those familiar with the terminology. I did a search and have found & #39;a SNP& #39;, but have not found "an SNP".

(This is also a good lesson in editorial humility: I never say "IT SHOULD DEFINITELY BE THIS." I always say "this is the norm—is the original a common disciplinary usage?" Because very often there IS a good reason they did it that way. Don& #39;t assume everything is a "mistake")