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Welcome to my Blog!

My name is Faith Siplin and I’m a junior at Florida State University. I’m currently majoring in English with a concentration in editing, writing, and media. This blog will chronicle my journey to establish myself in the editing profession while continuing to learn more about our complex language.                 My love for English, specifically the grammatical side of English, blossomed in one of my favorite classes during high school, which was also taught by my favorite teacher. During sophomore year I took English 2; the first half of our semester was focused on learning and using different copyediting symbols to edit writings. While other students groaned and reluctantly used the symbols to edit the various sentences and paragraphs that we were assigned, I found a sense of joy from the assignments. Correcting these passages came naturally to me and I thoroughly enjoyed the work. However, this wasn’t t...