Punctuation

that is really a tightrope because you want them to find their own voice, but the writing must be appropriate," Dorlea Rikard said (Singleton-Rickman para 7). One of the most commonly missed items in the texting language is punctuation. Since teens have never texted with punctuation, they tend to forget where all of the commas and periods should go (Mittal 1). English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan said “Many high school students have become dependent on electronic spell-checkers. As a result, I…

death, health, the healthcare system, the advancement of science and more. There were essays that I understood well as it opened my mind about life and those around me. These essays are, “The Deacon’s Masterpiece”, “On Committees”, and “Notes on Punctuation”. To begin, “The Deacon’s Masterpiece” main focus was to share with the reader that no matter how much you try to avoid death by fixing everything that is “broken”, dying is inevitable as it is a part of nature. The reason why I love this…

As I progressed to a higher grade I focused more on how to use punctuations more effectively. In Grades 3 to 5 the courses that I took were separated in different sections which consisted of English, comprehension and spelling. These sections were graded on how well one can write an essay given a topic and through rigorous…

level that I would like to be. Even though, I have made a significant progress since I started taking this course, there are major short comings that I would like to work on. The most common short comings that I have noticed are following grammar, punctuation, reference writing using MLA formatting rules appropriately. In addition, I had noticed that I had a difficult of writing essay within limited time. Throughout this course, I have been comparing all the essay assignment I wrote starting…

this course in reflection I realize the difficulty I had with punctuation/grammar, organization skills, and procrastination in completing the assignments. From the beginning of the course until now my punctuation/grammar skills have improved a great deal. I still have a ways to go on improving and mastering that skill, but I have always had difficulty in that area. My first essay that I completed had a tremendous amount of punctuation errors, run on sentences, and word choice errors. This was…

Claus). It appeared to me that these spelling were based on phonetics. The double R’s in very are an example of the stress placed on the word. The word cluster of tobe (to be) were repeating throughout the writing sample. The general area of punctuation was limited in this…

the biggest weakness of mine is solely punctuation. I do very well at finding content to get my point across and incorporating a conclusion to keep the reader with a good thought starter. For example, "God made us all different for a reason". Or at times I use humor to bring fun to a lesson such as "popsicles should never be walking around". Saying things in a way that has a powerful impact on the reader is my strong point. Although my diction and punctuation need work I have been blessed with…

“When You Thought Me Poor” by Alice Walker shows the abhorrent prejudice taken towards African Americans. This poem caught my attention because it opened my eyes to the cruelness and unfairness of racism. The poem commences with Walker rightfully complaining about the injustice of being unwelcome and condescended upon, because she is an African American woman. In the beginning, Walker starts with nothing, but by the end of the poem, she “owned too much and too many of everything.” Walker refers…

When asked how he would define the art of poetry, Edgar Allan Poe said this: “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” Two women who constructed beautiful lyrical poetry are Emily Bronte and Maya Angelou. There are quite a few different forms of poetry, one of which is called lyric poetry: “Lyric poems are shorter poems written in the first person that express deep thoughts and emotions” (Mays A7). Bronte wrote a poem called “The Caged Bird” which…

my room was a place where I was the boss. Max’s room was a place where he could be king and no one could tell him what to do. In regards to plot, I felt the illustrations told the story first, the words were boring and the use of punctuation or rather lack of punctuation made it difficult to read the first…