Punctuation Flaws

The first day I walked into Freshman Composition I had the idea that everything assigned was going to be extremely frustrating and difficult, as this is a college class. Equally important, my expectations for the class was to earn at least a B, further my writing abilities, and learn more about college. As the semester started, I noticed that my writing was not at the college level and I needed to learn how to improve it. Along with improving my writing, I was also able to learn about college life. With this essay turned in and handed back, I began to realize my writing needed practice and critiquing. Furthermore, I gave myself goals to achieve in Freshman Composition, I have learned useful tools to improve my writing, and I have learned more

As a writer you make mistakes with your work, but you can also fix things, so the next time you won 't make those mistakes again. In the area of writing I feel like I can use some more improvement with my punctuation and where I place them. When an assignment does come up and after I write it each time I learn something new. Not only writing in this class can be easy at times it can also be challenging, which I love about these assignments. I enjoy writing because at times I do get challenged, but I enjoy that challenge that Mr.Perry gives me, because it helps me improve as a writer.Overall as a writer in the beginning I felt like I was not a great but now as the semester is starting to end I feel more confidant and I feel I can write

Punctuation and grammar are major problems of mine when it comes to my writing. Semicolons and colons are my main problem areas. I have gone on countless websites trying to understand their usage better, still with no luck. I know their definitions, but applying them tends to be the problem. It is very frustrating to have a A paper turn into a C paper just because of a few mistakes. As for grammar, many times I will change the tenses in my writing without even noticing it. Occasionally I catch my mistakes, although I still miss a few. Over the summer practicing grammar and punctuation with my ACT prep tutor has benefited me immensely, hopefully what I learned can translate into my writing throughout the school year. Spelling is another problem of mine; I have struggled with it since I was younger. Over time spelling has stopped me from using more sophisticated words in my papers, which leads to my papers to seem a bit juvenile. Without autocorrect I would not know what I would do, however, I naturally wish to know how to spell certain words and not rely on a

My English classes were easy for me all throughout high school both because of my love for reading and writing and because it was not difficult to meet the expectations of my teachers. My writing skills were reaffirmed as opposed to challenged; I was told what I was doing right, and the only improvements I was told to make were about grammar and syntax. In college, my writing skills have been thoroughly challenged and, as a result, my ability to analyze texts and write essays with strong arguments and supporting evidence has improved

During my years in high school, I always took the necessary courses needed for that certain grade level. Looking back, I realized I was never challenged in these classes which is now affecting me in the long run. Finally, being challenged in a college level English class has improved my overall writing in ways that have contributed to me as a critical thinker. Through the essays we wrote, the grammar and usage lessons, and our classroom methodologies have enhanced my ability to write many different forms of essays. Thus, improving my overall thinking and writing skills.

To be successful in high school, there are certain rules one must have to follow and topics you have to apply those rules too. Which in most cases they are ideally limited. Teachers in high school only touch the basics of what will be taught in college. Such as grammar, research, limited sentences, and critical judgment on others work. All those categories are only touched to an extent, that gives us an idea of what college writing will be all about. I believe that in college the way one's writing is developed into is also encouraged by the way the professor grades the paper. So in order to succeed, you must know what the professor is looking for in your writing, but college writing I envision it being more complex than what writing was in

I think think biggest error in my writing is the proper use of the comma. I have read and understand the proper usage of the symbol, but I do not always agree with it in certain situations. I truly believe that some of the points an individual is trying to convey to a reader at times in writing, will not come across the way the writer intended when proper comma usage is applied. I understand that if you are trying convey a thought as a writer, it is your responsibility to ensure the message flows correctly, however, sometimes rewording a statement in order to be grammatically correct convolutes the message more than that improper sentence would have. I understand this is just my opinion and in no way, am I going to change how the symbol is

The errors that I have made, previously and still struggle with, in my writing are:

Throughout my entire life I struggled with English. I always had trouble writing an effective well-organized essay. Throughout my education I had always received bad grades on my essays. From constantly received bad grades I slowly began to give up, and I slowly began to lose hope in English. I asked myself, would I ever improve in writing? Or will I continue failing. I signed up for English 101A and I walked into the classroom with and open-mind but extremely nervous. Because in my head I am thinking this is a college class and it is going to be way harder than high school English. You know it wasn’t that bad after all, I ended up getting better grades in English 101A, than I ever did in high school English courses. I was jumping in joy when I passed English 101A, but I immediately stopped jumping because I knew I had to take another English class and it had do with research. It was my biggest nightmare, knowing this, I was really nervous when signing up for English 102, because I was scared of not doing well or not passing. But I had no other option and I went for it. Looking back to the beginning of English 102 with professor Deadrick I learned a lot and developed many skills that I didn’t know I had or knew. Throughout English 102 I have improved my outline strategies, critical thinking, my writing skills and grammar.

Let’s begin with how English has never been one of my stronger skills. I can speak it perfectly fine, but when it comes to writing papers, it is always quite difficult for me. Overall, I can say I have put forth more time and effort in this class than any of my other classes. There are areas that I would like to improve in, but as well areas that I believe I have done well. One of these areas would be essay writing and following the MEAL plan. Throughout the semester, I have developed skills that helped me improve on my writing. These skills are revision, free writing, and transitions.

In the beginning of the year I was not confident in my writing abilities. I did not know how to format different types of essays, nor did I know the meticulous research that goes into each and every paper. When we started off with narrative writings I felt fairly comfortable, but little did I know that I was a grammatical nightmare. My most common mistake was forgetting about commas before coordinating conjunctions. I would also often times become wordy or improper whenever I wasn't sure how to get an idea across. Whenever the year started I was clueless on how to format any dialogue at all, but as the year progressed these dialogue mishaps dwindled down until in my final papers they were much improved. Finally, my greatest personal improvement

Anne Tyler once said, “If I waited till I felt like writing, I’d never write at all.” If this were true I would have failed out of my academic writing class. I have pushed aside my past of procrastination and took in the new material. As a result of the class commas, run on sentences, and many other bad writing habits are now becoming a thing of the past. Mr. Roth has illustrated to me and supplied me with material to learn how to write better. The time I spend in or out of this class, I am trying to understand writing better. I have learned how to write better sentences, avoid small boring words, and correctly quote sources, but I still need work on unnecessary punctuation, better topic.

The first semester of college almost always begins with English 101. Some writers discover there love for writing, and decide to move forward with it, while others take other paths in their college career. I will say that my appreciation for writing has improved greatly, although writing has never really been my strong suit. Over the course of the semester, the most common mistakes that I made, were grammar mistakes. A common recurrence that I would have in all of my essays were strong, compelling arguments that followed the prompt well, but when it came to communicating these arguments, my grammar would lack. For the past 17 weeks my main focus to improve as a writer has been things like comma splices, typos, spelling, wordiness, and a little

I believe that my writing has grown a lot with in this first semester of college. I was the type of person in college that would write a paper, and not review it, and still turn it in. I would usually receive good grades, but that was on the high school level. Those types of under-developed papers do not receive good grades in college. On a paper that I may have turned in to one of my high school teachers would have got me a B, yet if I turn around and use that same paper now, I would receive no more than a D. That is what I believe should happen at this level in the game. You as an individual must recognize your own mistakes, and correct them on your own. In high school many of my teacher’s would grade a

My junior year I was pretty nervous hearing the word college class, worrying that it was going to be harder than any other english class I would of been able to take. But I knew I needed to take the class it would look better on college applications and would get me a better idea how a college class would be, so I would be ready for next year. Something I have learned so far in my English 1101 class, to always read your paper two or three times because you could always miss a mistake that could make or break your grade peer editing is so important. There has been some challenges throughout the semester my biggest thing has been in my papers I have had many run on sentences that I had no idea to fix. If my teacher didn't teach me how to check for it. My papers have improved a lot since I have seen the actual mistakes that I have made because I never had a teacher that peer edited and then showed me how to fix, I never knew how to fix it until now. I plan to improve on my organization in my papers because sometimes I get off track i’ll be talking about something then go straight to a complete different topic. I’m hoping I will improve on that by the end of the year. I plan to improve on many other things in my papers, I know that I have a teacher that will help with my papers.