Improved As A Writer

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How I've improved as a writer
Over the term and through this course I have improved certainly improved as a writer. One of the most helpful assignments we did was the revision of paper one which allowed me to see my mistakes, fix them and see first hand how these little changes can make a big difference on your end mark. Specifically, on the first assignment, most of the mistakes I had made were simple grammatical errors including forgetting to properly capitalize the first letter after a period as well I had not used proper punctuation. Prior to taking this course, I did not what a comma splice was but after receiving I found that I had made this mistake multiple times and tried not to do it in future assignments. I put into effect all

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