My week 1 paragraph assignment was on stigma surrounding HIV. After going through the paragraph over and over again I realized that there were some grammatical errors as well as sentence structure errors.
Starting with the mechanics of writing, the paragraph portrayed poor punctuation thus making the sentence incomplete or incorrect. In the first sentence, “Human Immunodeficiency Virus, popularly known as HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system...” a comma is missing between “HIV” and “is” thus making the sentence incorrect. In the fourth sentence, “The magnitude of the stigma has been heightened by lack of education, fear of the virus, as well as the relationships with those who are HIV positive and how one would feel if they or someone
Starting with the mechanics of writing, the paragraph portrayed poor punctuation thus making the sentence incomplete or incorrect. In the first sentence, “Human Immunodeficiency Virus, popularly known as HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system...” a comma is missing between “HIV” and “is” thus making the sentence incorrect. In the fourth sentence, “The magnitude of the stigma has been heightened by lack of education, fear of the virus, as well as the relationships with those who are HIV positive and how one would feel if they or someone