Comma

I enrolled in Teaching Writing and Grammar because I wanted to become a better writer. I knew that to bring my writing to the next level I needed confidence in writing conventions. I wanted to experience a writing class where my work would receive assessment and feedback based not only on content, but also on structure and grammar. Signing up for Teaching Writing and Grammar, I was apprehensive. It was my first semester at GMC, and the thought of taking a class with upperclassmen on a track to…

Range-finding comes very close to the outline of a perfectly grammatical poem, it has its shortcomings. While having two complete stanzas, and the first word of each sentence is capitalized, the first four lines of each stanza aren’t punctuated with a comma. In addition to this, the last line of each stanza shouldn’t begin with a subordinator. Lastly, in the first stanza, the last sentence isn’t a completed…

For one, I use far too many commas in my writing. I also need to broaden my vocabulary, since I have gotten stuck in the rut where I need to find a word to say that I haven’t used repeatedly already, or where I am searching my memory for a word that could have the meaning that I am…

This was particularly evident in Act III scene ii, during the revelation Tybalt’s death by Romeo’s doing: “My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; and Tybalt’s dead that would have slain my husband”(3.2.104-106). The passage, punctuated with commas, periods, and semicolons in a very routine manner had created an utmost serious tone in Juliet’s dialogue to the Nurse. Readers were able to learn of Juliet’s devastation, as she realizes that the survival of one of her family members would…

editing my paper. Revising and editing is the hardest part about writing an essay to me. Even though we do writing drills in class I still have a difficult time editing my paper and other peoples. I look through my tip advising books that include: commas, apostrophes, fragments, and tenses. When I have no one to revise and edit my paper besides me, I put my paper through editors on the internet and they usually give me useful information. Once I do the revise and edited my paper, I read through…

John Donne crafts an anti-love poem of warning by expressing all the same immediate sentiments of love and longing while also subverting the original love poem genre through drunken expression. This is why no word better encapsulates the overall tone and intention of the poem than “drunk” in the first stanza: “The general balm th ' hydroptic earth hath drunk” (6). The word holds an immense amount of weight as it rests heavy on the tongue. This aforementioned heftiness correlates to the enormity…

My expectations coming into a college course were not scaled by the level of difficulty, rather the effectiveness of English 101. Especially, for a class that I must pay for would it be worth the time and money? As the class continued throughout the year I realized my skills as a writer and for academic writing improved, I found what I need extra practice on, as well as what I would like more out of the class in the future. As a college course, I expected for there to be mostly essays and…

Students have been learning by leaps and bounds throughout February. Time flies when you’re having fun, and in a leap year! Whether its heart-pumping excitement at the fire department, investigating beyond your average brainteaser, rocking out in geology, or commemorating America by learning from its’ history, students are challenging their academic achievements. This month has been absolutely extraordinary, and we are happy to share with you a little about the wonderful activities your…

From reading Mountains Beyond Mountains, and of Dr. Paul Farmer’s pursuit of helping the destitute and poor, it has become evident the obligations of myself and others in wealthier nations to help the poor. Kidder talks about the use of the word “Comma,” how Dr. Farmer would use it at the end of a sentence to represent the person “…who felt comfortable with the current distribution of money and medicine in the world” (Kidder). This was an eye opener, the realization I felt the current system was…

his eye, and lastly, the narrator had no description of his own besides the madness he claimed he did not possess. Poe’s indirect descriptive technique offered his audience the freedom of imagining who the next character would be in each pause of a comma. Also allowing the narrator to describe the characters gave the story its core tone a nervous mood. In a nutshell, something this story simply could be told without is its characters and characterization to make them come to…