I would say the biggest thing I have noticed about my pieces is a few "What the heck was I trying to say?" moments.
It is nice to have a break in between final rough drafts and the final revision, that way I can separate myself from the writing. It seems that regardless of how many times I actually re-read these two pieces, my mind kept saying, "it sounds great, nothing else to fix". Now that I have had some down time, yeah...um, they still could use a small amount of work.
The profile piece just needs a few things fixed and the layout played with. The feature piece needs some argumentative adjustments and just smaller spacing as if it would appear in a magazine.
I seem to be struggling with how much of 'me' I should add to the profile piece. I don't want it pulling away from the true scientist, but I was there for some of the data collection the piece talks about...ugh. I guess that's part of the process, try something and if that doesn't work...try something else.
