Comma

stop getting chills, not because of the incoming blast of fog chilled north coast air, but because I’m nervous of what Ms. Morton will say. Her lips are pursed as she looks my scrawny sixth grade self up and down before she blithely asks, “what is a comma anyway?” I pause, look up, and say “I don’t know,” but here’s the thing: I didn 't need to yet. One could say that I didn’t go to primary school in the most traditional environment. Located in the tiny coastal crossroad of Caspar, with a…

three major alcohol abuse situations he would be kicked out of the university.” This sentence was a run-on because I placed a comma in the middle of it; when I placed the comma there it made it a comma splice. In paper two my peer mark gave a lot of suggestions with grammar, making me feel disappointed. Keeping what they had said in mind I ended up adding a lot of commas. My peer mark also made me aware of a couple situations where my word choice was not fully clear. Even though I fixed where…

In the article about the Condom Casino, I did make the mistake with forgetting to include commas and spelling out numbers instead of using it 's basic number. As for dates, I have made the mistake of not using the abbreviation for the month and misplacing the commas needed for correct AP style. An example of this was the Condom Casino where I stated a month that needed to be abbreviated for standard AP style and easy reading…

Composition one has helped me grow as a writer and has taught me skills I can use in the future. I have learned how to use commas, passive voice, semicolons, and format a paper in MLA. From my first essay to my last one, it is noticeable that a major improvement has been made. I did not know that even after teacher feedback that you needed to revise your own work. Although I have learned many skills, I believe that the most valuable one is how to revise my essays. When I got my first feedback…

It is my hope that while you are reading this letter, you will gain an understanding of the papers contained in this portfolio. I enclose three essays, and three reflections about the assignments that I have summited for my writing class at Germanna Community College, English 112. The essays are: a summary report, a literary analysis, and an argumentative report. Below I present general descriptions of my writing, along with my review of my strengths and weaknesses. My purpose on writing a…

all conjunctions and replacing them with commas to speed up the flow of his dialogue. The usage of asyndeton allows for the reader to understand the increased excitement Macbeth felt. Concept: Macbeth feels the urge to kill Banquo and Fleance since he wants to achieve as much power as possible. In Act III, Macbeth must act quickly, due to the fact that he feels compelled to kill Banquo before the dinner party occurred. Utilizing short phrases and commas, Shakespeare illustrates Macbeth’s pure…

This paper is about no ordinary man. This man is smart, talented, handsome and perfect. Of course it is I , Blake stoughton. I was not the best paper writer that has ever walked this earth but I have improved immensely. Many things have changed for the better, and somethings have not changed that need to. These papers have taught me a lot about how to read and comprehend papers better. My writing techniques and how I approach writing a paper has changed a lot. The first thing that has changed…

My [Un]changing Writing Process There is a game called darts that is based on a point system: the closer you get to the center, bulls eye, the higher the score, with the highest score winning the game. The game is how I can describe my writing style this quarter. I tend to hit the outer edge only, without going any further to nail the bulls eye in the center. Throughout the quarter this is how I have come to judge my writing, I tried to hit all the points with all the darts in my hand. Based on…

At the beginning of this semester I knew I was not the greatest writer, however, I never thought I was a horrible writer. In this semester Professor K. Jagasia had given the class a syllabus that stated expected student learning objectives. Between both classes, English 1001 and English 0920, there was a total of twenty learning outcomes. Within these outcomes I believe I was able to accomplish them all. Although, I have learned many things in my high school English classes, however I was able…

narrative essay, I made a couple of mistakes concerning grammar and use of vague pronouns. First, I placed a comma in front of “because;” “because” is a subordinating conjunction, meaning it joins two independent clauses in order to form a complex sentence. The sentence that I wrote contains an independent clause and a subordinating clause. Since the subordinating clause is at the end, a comma is not needed in front of because. Additionally, I overused vague pronouns throughout my entire essay.…