Tips for Professional Writing Students

Who woulda thunk that reading a book on journalism would show one ways to improve their writing skills?

There are two main points that I would like to bring up from chapter 2.

First off, Murray gives a few tips on editing your own writing. Personally, I hardly edit myself. I'll glance over something I've written, but I don't put it under a microscope.

The next one was during an interview with David Arnold. In it, Arnold gives rules and principles to try to follow when writing, one of them being "don't lead with a quote." While this is not common practice for me, I have lead with a quote before, if I thought that what the person said was more interesting and informative than I would have come up with.