My Writing Errors

Many students have struggled with essays for their English class. They have difficulties due to many issues, the least of which are poor writing skills. Each person has their own area of writing which gives them the most trouble. If this lack of skill is not addressed then a student can be certain that his or her grade will fall. Personally, I have the most difficulty with conclusions, transitions, and comma usage. To address these issues I conducted research and found three effective sources; The Little seagull Handbook, Smart-words.org, and grammar.ccc.commnet.edu. These three sources assisted me in improving each of my three skills, which I struggle with.

After this semester of English 102, at Bristol Community College I feel that I have gained the skill to articulate what I want to convey to the reader in many ways. I don’t just look at grammatical error, but instead I look for ways to make my sentences more effective and concise. Nevertheless, I hope that this strategy will continue to help me improve my writing even further on in the future.

Hello Sylvia! Our strengths and weaknesses are both similar and different at the same time.I was never a fan of grammar. Throughout my early school years, it remained a mystery. Reading books allowed me to improve my grammar skills, but it is something that I am constantly trying to improve. The APA writing style directions seemed easy to follow. I used the resources in the Ashford website in order to freshen up on the subject. Comma usage, reading comprehension, and subject-verb agreement are all grammatical errors that I have difficulty understanding as well. The comma use can be tricky because one may have so many words that they wish to incorporate into a single sentence. Reading comprehension seems easy, but when one is in a hurry, it

Throughout the course of this semester in AP Lang, my eyes have been opened to many of the weaknesses I never knew I had in writing. Coming into this semester, I had heard about the difficulty of this class, but was not unduly worried about not receiving an A; I have always considered myself as a competent if not strong writer. However, after failing to attain desired grades on several important essays, I was devastated, and realized that although I had mastered the basics of grammar and writing, there was still much for me to work on. Also, I did not understand that much of my grade in AP Lang would be determined by speaking in front of others, which is not my strong suit. What I have come to find is that writing essays containing all of the new information we have learned throughout the semester, such as requirements for different types of essays and good writing strategies, takes a lot of work, time, and thinking. Unfortunately, my procrastination caused me to only get done what had to be done instead of putting in the extra work and truly understanding everything.

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

I chose four grammar activities to take in order to improve my writing. The first two activities are the “Avoiding Comma Splices” (Bobeck, Avoiding Comma Splices) and “Avoiding Comma Splices 2” (Calamari, Avoiding Comma Splices). This grammatical issue is something I struggle with, and hope to learn how to overcome them by the end of this class. My use of comma splices is present in the first assignment of this class. The first quiz consists of ten sentences containing comma splices. In the text box below the imperfect sentences, I corrected the comma splice. Then I clicked on the Grammar’s Version to see how accurate my answer was. The second quiz was incredibly similar, and I followed the same directions as I did the first one to complete it. It is expressed on both quizzes that while there are multiple ways to correct comma splices, Grammar’s Version is the most accurate. I learned when faced with a comma splice, you must use a semicolon, period, or a word that connects the two sentences. This sentence: “Kimberly sat on the bleachers and cheered for the team, Tom watched as he vigorously defended the goal” (Calamari, Avoiding Comma Splices) must be changed to “Kimberly sat on the bleachers and cheered for the team. Tom watched as he vigorously

To help me improve on my punctuation I will read Punctuation and Mechanics chapter in A Writer’s Reference. By reading that chapter I think I will learn about coordinating conjunctions and different ways to users use commas and when to use them. I hope to gain more skills that will help me improve as a writer while I write my Hegemonic essay and by using resources that are provided at the TLC and in A Writer's Reference book I believe will help me tremendously in my writing journey.

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Ok, so I am Wilhelmina and today I am going to talk about why it is important to write properly. Writing properly is super-duper important you guys, because if we don't write properly, how will people understand us? So I will write about writing properly in 3 way: why we write properly, how to write properly, and writing properly.

I feel that the biggest change to my writing this semester is in the way I organize myself for assignments. I was homeschooled and did all my assignments online. Making the change to a classroom environment was difficult for me due to my Asperger’s and learning about how to organize all aspects of my writing has been a challenge. I feel that I have improved as the semester progressed. I would like to discuss each aspect of the writing process and how my skills have improved by taking this class. I will be able to use the organizational process in my future career as a film maker and director.

This handout provides some tips and strategies for revising your writing. To give you a chance to practice proofreading, we have left seven errors (three spelling errors, two punctuation errors, and two grammatical errors) in the text of this handout. See if you can spot them!

My biggest struggle in writing would be starting my introduction because I never really know what information to add in my stating my thesis statement. Although, one way I’m trying to improve this struggle is by either adding small quotes or definitions to hook the reader and to add some info about my topic. Furthermore, one essay that I feel reflects my writing the best would be the midterm essay. I picked the midterm essay because even though it was timed I still took my time and carefully picked which examples I thought would best represent my opinions. In addition, I feel using the quote “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” by Nelson Mandela was a very powerful way to keep the reader interested. Ultimately, while I still haven’t overcome the obstacle of writing an introduction I know I’m slowly starting to find my way towards my goal of not struggling when it comes to starting my essays.

The comma is my nemesis, it's the one thing I don't think I ever get. There needs to be a workshop on comma placement, I may see if I can find one. Thank you for the comment, a professor hasn't corrected me for a long time on it so I assumed I was doing ok.

In my first out-of-class essay ”What is So Important About Appearance?”, I learned many new skills that I 've never learned before. The most helpful thing that I learned from this essay is about comma splices. Before knowing what a comma splice is I made silly mistakes such as forgetting to use the FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so). For example "most people do not really care about what we are wearing, maybe some people do care". In this sentence I should use one of the FANBOYS "and" after the comma. However, after doing some reading and rewrites now I have the ability to avoid comma splices. For

I never knew when it started, this obsession. Didn’t even realize how slowly and steadily what I thought I could control controlled me. I am not like most people my likes, dislikes and feelings differ from most of the crowd. When did I become someone who cared so much what other people think of me? Now that I think about it, it baffles me how I slowly and steadily from being an individual who preaches about being different suddenly became someone who just wanted to fit in to other people’s expectations. And suddenly I feel I woke up to realize what kind of a slave I had become.