Your role as editor is important, for you can look at a piece of writing objectively.

你作为编辑的角色是重要的，因为你可以客观地看一篇文字。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

What makes a good piece of writing?

一部优秀的作品是怎么写出来的？

youdao

We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.

我们要将一篇文章写到最好，并尽可能地接近理想状态。

youdao

Suppose you came across a piece of writing that you knew nothing about just lying there on the table.

假设，你读到一段,你对它一无所知的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You didn't know who wrote it, where, when, how, why, and someone says to you, "I want you to draw some conclusions about that piece of writing.

你不知道是谁，在哪里，什么时间，怎么样，为什么要写,然后你被要求对篇文章，做一个总结。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You want to write the specs so that everybody does in fact know what this piece of code is doing, and you're writing it each time around.

但是你得养成良好的习惯和编程风格,你得撰写规范说明从而保证,每个人都知道这段代码是干什么的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The fact that none other than John Updike chronicled that game in a now legendary piece of writing was an added bonus.

WSJ: Soccer: Chelsea Figures Out How to Say Goodbye to Frank Lampard

He should only be interested in it as a piece of writing.

NEWYORKER: Homework

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing, what governs the choice?

NEWYORKER: Progression