What just happened
Start hereClick a word in the sentence to begin.
The three-second procedure. Find the verb. Ask who or what is doing this? Bracket everything between the answer and the verb, then read the sentence without the bracketed words. Prepositional phrases — of, in, with, along with, as well as, including, together with — never contain the subject. Neither does anything set off by commas.
And the pronoun procedure. For every this, it, they, which in your draft, point at the exact noun it replaces. If your finger lands on a whole previous sentence, or on two possible nouns, or on nothing, the reader is guessing — and in professional writing a guess is a liability.