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In the day where technology is thriving, and the communication through email and text messages are now the common norm, there has been a steady decline and absence on the use of proper punctuation. The slow disappearance of punctuation standards, like commas and apostrophes, indicate the need for change towards the written world. Lynne Truss considers herself a stickler for punctuation, and her book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves addresses the minority of those who regard themselves as punctuation "sticklers" as well. Through the use of humor, figurative language such as relatable analogies and real life anecdotes, Lynne Truss creates a call to action for all the fellow punctuation sticklers: embrace proper punctuation, and require zero tolerance for those who use it incorrectly.

In the introduction to my first essay the 3rd sentence contains an easily remediable comma splice: “Not me, I live for this.” Later in the same paragraph I made the same mistake with “My operators think they are the ones who drive me into these situations – they’re wrong, I am the one who drags them into the belly of the beast.” Prior to ENC1101, I would never consider the preceding sentence wrong. After learning about the proper usage of commas and semicolons, I realized I have been creating comma splices all my life. Learning what independent clauses were and how to properly punctuate them has given my writing a greater sense of credibility. Replacing the comma with a semicolon, the punctuation used to separate 2 independent clauses, fixes them. Another error exposed during this course was my improper use of word forms. An example is shown here from my second essay “Seeing their demeanor switch from animosity to appreciative made me feel rewarded for my efforts”. Reading that sentence in my mine seems fine, but on closer inspection the words “animosity” and “appreciative” are not in same form. This course (specifically the SmartThinking program) has shown me that making word forms agree leads to more fluid writing. Correcting these errors leads to more mature writing and will make future professors respect my writing

So, you’ve got Bywater’s English 1010 class and you don’t know what to write about? Don’t worry, you are not alone. Although Professor Bywater’s class may seem intimidating, it truly is one of the most rewarding classes you will take at DSU, and it will help you throughout your college career when it comes to writing papers. Professor Bywater’s class comes with an amazing textbook titled Rules of Thumb and a checklist, or Writing Guide 101, and this checklist will save your life and your paper. Using transition sentences between paragraphs, understanding pronouns, and using the correct point of view are the most important points in Professor Bywater’s checklist, and I will show you the correct usage and implementation of all three. Read and retain the following information and you will succeed in English 1010 and gain the skills you need to succeed in college making your life, and your papers, easier.

I was reading through the feedback I received on the first major paper I have written in over four years, I happened to think of something I read on a pink notebook in Walmart last night. “Good feedback is the key to improvement.” When I saw the errors I missed, I knew it was time to start making some healthy adjustments to my writing. Although I have a terrible habit of using contractions and comma splices, I would like to expand my vocabulary and formulate my writing to become stronger, be able to incorporate transitional statements, and I would like to become comfortable with comma usage.

My second paper had no title but would have been called “Singing for Masculinity”. This second paper highlights the frequent mistakes that I made because of no editing and not giving working overtime to put forth a quality product. During my first draft I had many comments on terrible syntactical errors throughout my paper especially on awkward sentence phrasing. An example was “...when some athletes join the choir it gains a different perception”. This sentence sounds like I am just talking normally. With phase “some athletes” I am not expressing exactly who these athletes are like football players. This sentence structure does not exemplify who I am as a writer. After reading all of the comments that were given to me, I started to learn

Despite its unconventional presentation, this essay provides quite a bit of valuable information about punctuation. It expresses the different emotions and impressions associated with the use of various punctuation marks in writing. For example, the beginning of the essay defines question marks and exclamation points as “indicators of tone” rather than stops. This means that they convey an attitude instead of just ending a sentence, which makes sense when one considers how these types of sentences are read aloud. Later in the essay, author Lewis Thomas warns readers of the risk of overusing quotation marks. He states that while quotation marks are important for genuine quotes, their presence is not necessary when writing cliches or in advertising

I have noticed in my writing especially, the overuse of commas. It is very hard for me not to use them. I feel as if they are very necessary sometimes. I also have quite a few bad phrase's. I am so used to writing this way and I have never had a lot of feedback. This class has especially helped me understand just how terrible of a writer I can be. I encourage everyone to triple proofread everything. I believe with the Internet and text messages, and the overuse of information we commonly make these errors more now than ever before. We are so quick to type out a message and send it instead of reading it and really understanding if it is grammatically correct. I know now how important it is to reread everything I send in any form not only in

I went to the Preston Ridge Writing Center to complete my lab. A lady named Darcy was my tutor and she started off the session by having me read my essay aloud. I had a few grammatical errors consisting of misspelled words, punctuation inside quoted text, and lack of determiners. I was told that I shouldn’t “write how I text”.

Writing is a process that can always be perfected and it is always a good idea to continue education for learning benefits and to sharpen your skills. Writing has always easily come to me; it is not hard for me to get my ideas on paper, but I have issues when it comes to grammar and punctuation. Grammar and punctuation are two key factors that can make or break a writer’s work; to be a good writer you must have those two down. This past summer in English 1301 I picked up on some grammar and punctuation tips that will help me in my future endeavors; I learned: using contractions like “I’m and aren’t” are not professional but using “I am and are not” is better to use, I also learned what a comma splice was because I never knew what my mom meant when she would call me the “comma splice queen.”

It’s interesting to see how each student will find different grammatical errors in reading. This will show that students can edit mechanical errors within the reading and make changes as necessary. This will help assess the students in their editing grammar mechanics.

This semester has provided me with a lot of new strategies that have allowed me to become a better writer. Throughout this semester, I have noticed that my old writing style had a bunch of errors and grammatical errors that I can now avoid. In this letter, I will talk about how my writing skills have improved by using the grammatical rule as well using the rhetorical situation, evidence and my emotions that I have put out in my assignments. The way I will show that is by giving examples within two paper I have constructed in class this semester: the thesis based essay titled:” The American Dream Then and Now’ and paragraph one assignment titled “Does an certain genre of music have an effect on people”.

First of all, because the researcher and her supervisor who evaluated the mistakes in students’ essays are non-native speakers, the error being corrected were mainly based on their experience and knowledge. Moreover, the errors considered as idiomaticity errors such as word choice, collocation, and preposition are naturally very perplexing, even to the native speakers, let alone the non-native. Therefore the idiomaticity errors in students’ essay were just relatively corrected.

The English language has turned into the world's most widely used language. It is the principal language for global communications in various fields including trade, industry, legislative issues, and training. This is the main motivation behind why a large number of learners throughout the world are endeavoring to enhance their English language capability. A basic segment of this capability is enhancing one's ability for writing since this ability is absolutely essential for employment in recent years. One vital factor to consider with writing competency is spelling as one single incorrectly spelled-word can change a word or the purpose of the entire sentence.

Have you ever wondered why your English teachers constantly drilled the seemingly unimportant skills of grammar into your head day after day? The answer is much simpler than you may think: they’re trying to prepare you for future success in life. In today’s world, comprehensive writing and language are skills students need to understand. Jeffery Selingo, author of “There is Life After College”, pointed out in his article “Why can’t college graduates write coherent prose?” the importance and application of proper writing skills in the workplace. This glaring fact cannot be understated enough, however many graduates and students seem to be oblivious to this. In order to help my fellow students, I’ve taken the liberty to lend the advice from the mouths of two experts on the subject matter, Kyle Wiens and Susan Adams. Hopefully, after reading their thoughts and introducing my own plan to improve my grammar skills, more students will be able to confidently say they know their grammar.

This study intended to investigate by using Error Analysis (EA), the writing errors caused by the interference the first language (Persian language), in two writing kinds: narration, description, by Iranian EFL students that are 20 English paragraphs written by the participants, who study in Torbat Azad University .The results showed that the first language interference errors fell into 11 categories: lexico-semantic errors, error in use of tenses, wrong use of active and passive voice, error in use of relative clauses & relative pronouns,