How Delpit's article will be useful as an editor

4. If you are not planning to teach, how do issues of language and power apply in the field you plan to enter? Does Delpit offer relevant insight?

I plan to go into editing, which is relevant to Delpit's article. In editing, it is common to simply mark incorrect grammatical structures and errors throughout a piece without giving a thought to where the writer might be coming from. This has taught me again, like the diversity video we watched, a new way to think about the editing process. As opposed to saying "This is wrong, fix it," I believe editors should also explain their corrections to the author (no matter what race they happen to be), because then they will actually understand the "language of power" as opposed to just learning that something is wrong and not knowing why. If the latter is the case, they will likely make the same mistakes over and over again.