Overall, I found it difficult to separate microediting from macroediting. I can understand separating them for the purpose of class discussion, but in my (albeit limited) experience, micro and macro editing tend to happen at the same time. You might read through once just looking for grammar while letting macro questions simmer in the back of your mind, but I’m not sure it’s possible to totally separate them. For example, when I was working with Rachel I tried to focus only on grammar, style, etc., but found myself thinking here and there “I wonder if she could include more on this” or “she could probably do away with this.” Similarly, while working with Lisa this week, I tried to limit myself to thinking about big-picture questions but could not stop myself looking for little grammatical errors. I felt overall that trying to separate these types of editing into two completely different exercises was not tremendously helpful.
