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[[Image:Gabriel Metsu - Man Writing a Letter.JPG|thumb|right|260px|''Man writing a letter'' (1662–65), oil on canvas, by Flemish painter [[Gabriel Metsu]]; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin]]Skilled editing is central to achieving high-quality Wikipedia articles. This is a set of exercises in which you are presented with a portion of faulty text. It may contain problems of grammar, logic, cohesion, tone, lexical choice, punctuation or redundant wording. In some cases, there are breaches of Wikipedia's [[Manual of Style|Manual of style]]. What is difficult about these exercises is that they do not concentrate on one specific aspect of writing or editing, as do our exercises in eliminating [[User:Tony1/How_to_satisfy_Criterion_1a:_redundancy_exercises|redundant wording]]. Here, you need to be aware of all of the things that can go wrong whenin constructing English text is constructed.

Feedback on how to improve these exercises is welcome on the talk page.