In editing anything (including a college essay), improve the writer, not just the text

In editing anything (including a college essay), improve the writer, not just the text

The New York Times published a piece about helicopter parents making obvious and easily detectable edits to college essays. Once you recognize that your job as an editor is to improve writers, not just writing, you won’t do stuff like that. The writer of the Times piece, titled “How I Know You Wrote Your Kid’s College…