Punctuation

My biggest weakness is probably punctuation, I can learn it over and over again, and I still manage to use it incorrectly. My biggest problem is thinking I have to put a comma everywhere. Putting commas everywhere leads me to have run-on sentences. To improve this I need to utilize the “fanboy”…

effect that the mother is trying to distract herself and sugar coat the situation. Another difference between these two poems is the use of punctuation. Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted contains absolutely no punctuation, which gives off a frantic tone; whereas in Traveling Through the Dark, where the author used lots of punctuation to create a pausing effect. Suggests that the mother is nervous, tense, and babbling on to avoid thinking about the fact that she is…

I wrote my personal narrative essay about the time my cat was stolen from me. Although I was effective in retelling the story itself, my paper had many mistakes. By revising these mistakes I fixed the grammatical and punctuation errors in my writing and also made the essay easier to understand and more meaningful. Throughout my essay there were several instances where I used the incorrect verb tense, or shifted back and forth between present and past tense. To fix this error I went back and…

As a college student, there is nothing worse than getting an essay returned to from your professor with red markings labeling grammatical errors. As we learned, proofreading essays and reports helps us check for mistakes and correct them. One of the most common types of errors found is the “Run on Sentence.” This is often referred to as the grandfather of all mistakes (Miller & Whitehead, 2015).” Most people believe that it is impossible to write long sentences and be grammatically create.…

When I get so focused on writing a paper, I can get my thoughts down, but cannot seem to focus on the correct punctuation or spelling at the same time. There is a section in LB Handbook on editing, formatting and proofreading (pages 33-40) that can assist me in proofreading. Also, I have the tendency to keep using the same pronoun repeatedly in my paper and use vague…

Road to Revolution Exam Directions: You are going to pretend that you are an American Colonist in 1775 who is frustrated with all of the events that have happened since the the French and Indian War. You are going to finish writing the letter below to King George to explain why you are so upset. Write a short paragraph (5-6 Sentences) that explains why each of the following events caused frustration among the colonists. The first one is done for you as an example. What you write will appear…

are used to capture a reader’s feelings. Throughout this poem Ginsberg allows the audience to sense emotions in ways such as using word choice with specific punctuation, contrast of metaphors, and use of active voice. All through Ginsberg’s literary work, “A Supermarket in California”, emotions are fed through word choice and punctuation; for instance, “In my fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon supermarket” (4-5). This example of witty wording has set the mood in the…

“mad”. By doing this, he also conveys the idea of obsession over the old man's discriminating eye. This idea blossoms as he continues to explain his argument of “madness vs nervousness” in conjunction with his textual structure like his repetition, punctuation and timing, pacing. Though the analyzation of his textual usage, it becomes relevant that they all point to the idea of obsession. Poe starts off by saying “nervous-very,very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you…

a paragraph about a major goal in my life, was one I was really excited to write and ended up with a B/B+ grade. I wrote my paragraph on a weight loss goal I had when I was only twelve years old. When I got this paper back, there was a lot of punctuation errors. The biggest error that was consistent was the lack and misuse of commas. In my one paragraph, I had eight comma errors alone. After this paper I worked hard to…

think the way we were given strict rules like that the papers were due on one day, and if it was not turned in on time, the grade was a zero. In my opinion the only thing that could have been done differently is how close I personally looked at the punctuation in my papers. The class really helped me improve my writing skills, so I have nothing bad to say about this class. This class helped me a lot. I learned so much in just a few weeks. Yes, the class was difficult, but I would not change it.…