So when I started at college, I took a freshman lit class. So first week, the professor assigns a book for us to read and report on. So I read the book, which was "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" by Carré and turn in my report on it.

So then instructor reads and grades our book reports and returns them to us. So I'm expecting all her markup to be related to my review of the story content. So I was surprised when I saw that she struck out the work "so" in my book report. So I can't remember her comment but it was something like "unneeded" or "trite". So I thought about that, and reread the sentence without the leading word "So" and found it clearer, not as cluttered and less pretentious.