The Overuse Of Errors In My Writing

Throughout the progression of this course I learned countless things concerning my writing. {Simkin, M. G., Crews, J. M., & Groves, M. J. (2012). While it’s there’s a many amounts of things ‘ve learned throughout the course, there are several things I‘ve learned which include the step by step process, including the correct usage of grammar and properly proofreading my work before I turn it in. I found out i had a major problem with my punctuation usage and insufficient when it came my periods and commas. I’ve invested some time writing through grammarly and other helpful sites to improve my writing skills. I appreciate the assistance and help I received from Mrs. C

When reading my outline of corrections, I realized a lot of minor imperfections. When writing my essay, I just assumed I was writing everything correctly. I made tons of minor grammar mistakes, that could have been avoided by proof reading. My major mistakes came from comma placement. When trying to find ways to improve the placement of my commas, I came across this website https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/3/5/15/answer. It’s a site that helps you to improve your punctuation placement. It gives you sentences and ask you how many commas does this sentences need, or is it correct? I went through this 7 times till I got them all correct. I still have work I need to do,

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

Once again, I had made mistakes I hadn’t even noticed before. When my paper went through peer review, and I received feedback, I was told something I had thought I had already done. I was told, “Commas need added in a few spots like after 'In fact, and Still,” (Anonymous). Surely when I went back to the essay there were not commas in some important spots, for example, “In fact about a third of students who take out student loans never even graduate and receive their diploma” (Straley 3). Having a peer read your essay, can really help you find your grammatical errors. When we read our own paper, we often read it as if the punctuation is there, even if it is not. When someone else reads it though, they can easily identify these mistakes, especially when it is their first time reading your

As 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 small 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 make my writing stronger, be able to incorporate more transitional statements, and I would like to become more comfortable with comma usage.

My love for writing isn’t as strong as my love for reading. I’ve always enjoyed the idea of expressing my thoughts in words, but I always struggle with things such as punctuation, spelling, grammar, and word choice. I think I’m better at writing personal narratives, and persuasive essays, but I‘m always unsure of where to put my commas. Writing has always given me the pleasure of challenging me, and I hope that this year I would become a better

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.

An aspect that I often struggle with is proper punctuation. Truthfully, I do not know how to correctly use punctuation. When writing, I place punctuation by mimicking authors’ formats or by placing them where it feels right. This is present in all of my writing, but I am attempting to improve. Punctuation also plays a part in another weakness of mine, one that is most likely present within this essay. Since middle school, it was engrained in my mind that a good essay is a long essay, so I have a tendency for wordiness. To elongate an essay, I tend to add needless words and sentences. For example, in the rough draft of the Whole Process Essay, I added several unrelated occurrences to elongate the paragraphs. Although my essays were long and wordy, the professor commented on vagueness and unclearness within the whole process and practice essay. Sometimes, I disregard the fact that the reader might not know what it is I am writing about or the sentence makes perfect sense to me. The latter is the most common, I quickly read the sentence and it appears fine to me. Within the Whole Process Essay, another weakness was brought to my attention. I lack structure, a key element in effective writing. Within the same essay and a few others, I simply added what felt right, sometimes the result would be acceptable but in other instances, it was a long, jumbled mess.

Throughout the course of the semester my major writing flaws was comma usage and tense shifting. In all of my papers comma placement was the issue that stuck out for me as I looked over the graded papers. An example from my first paper is the following: Eighth grade was a different story, and a different school. Looking back at this sentence the comma was not needed because it’s not a compound sentence. Even though my second paper was better there was still some mistakes. For example: My eyes widened in disbelief, I can tell you I didn’t see that one coming. The comma doesn’t need to be there because the sentences can stand alone. Another example of a mistake I made is the following sentence: My body and soul felt as if they had been altered

misuse commas a lot, which on my essays were labeled “comma splices.” In the first

There is now is an increasing population of elderly patients who is not receiving the proper guidance when it comes to their disease states and medications. More specifically, elderly patients in independent nursing homes are responsible for filling, picking up and taking their own medications from pharmacies outside the nursing home without any help. This means they have to remember to put in the refills, remember to pick up the medications and then remember to actually take the medications at the right times. Studies have shown the lack of guidance in the independent homes often results in many errors that may even lead to fatalities. One study showed that “the most common types of errors resulting in patient death involved administering an improper dose (40.9%), administering the wrong drug (16%) and using the wrong route of administration (9.5%)”1. Pharmacists play a crucial role in preventing these common types of errors. Through proper counseling sessions, the pharmacist has the ability to convey the correct information to the patient about their medication regimen. Aside from the significant need of fixing medication errors, there is a large need for patient education on their disease states and disease state management. Educated patients will want to be more cautious of their therapy, reach full therapeutic efficacy and slow the progression of their disease states. One study showed that after conducting a meta-analysis on 360 studies, 64%

Making mistakes is a huge part in life. However, making those mistakes can lead to a successful life. Learning those mistakes help me change to a different and a better person. I do believe this life lesson has come across in everybody’s life. I know that when you make the mistakes it causes to cry or be angry; however, in the end of learning from that mistake will have you smiling in the end.

Writing about mistakes are not easy. Especially if it involves people you care about. It appears that hindsight is definitely 20/20. To look back at the mistake of my past relationship with my girlfriend and to feel the strong feelings as if we were together yesterday, then reality that she's vanished and now only a strong memory. The pressure of being a guy in freshman year at a large high school is like swimming in the middle of an ocean. So many waves around you pleading for attention and to accept the plead only has your arms in a raging motion trying to keep your head up. Yes, I kissed a girl while loving another. Am I proud? No. To turn back time and not fall in the trap would be a life jacket surrounding my heart and preventing me from drowning and sinking to this place where love is hard to find.

There are often mistakes committed which make us feel guilty but there are some which are meant to teach us lessons, life lessons. Why is it that committing mistake and feeling guilty is. considered correct while committing mistake and not feeling guilty is considered wrong? Mistakes are often looked down upon as they seemingly have a negative impact on people around and also the person who committed mistake. Thinking about it, it is not always necessary to feel guilty about one’s mistakes. It is often believed life is full of choices, it varies from person to person what choice they make ; right or wrong. If anyone makes a wrong choice, it is considered as a mistake. People often have misconception that committing mistakes are what highlights our weakness. However, committing

Error Correction in Second Language Writing: Teachers’ Beliefs, Practices, and Students’ Preferences Victor Albert Francis S. Corpuz Supervisors: Lynette May Annette Patterson Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Education Master of Education (Research) September 2011 Abstract Error correction is perhaps the most widely used method for responding to student writing. W hile various studies have investigated the effectiveness of providing error correction, there has been relatively little research incorporating teachers’ beliefs, practices, and students’ preferences in written error correction . The current study adopted features of an ethnographic research design in order to explore the beliefs and