Punctuation

at grammar or punctuation, but I overcame that difficulty throughout my English courses with my teachers. I discovered in my English 2 class that I wasn't too good at reading comprehension and figured out that I needed to read sentences more than once to fully understand a sentence completely. I am pretty confident in myself when it comes to argument essays though. I seem to always do well on that type of essay. Before I got into 9th grade I struggled with grammar and punctuation. We did bell…

Attitude: I'm excited to strengthen my story writing as forward to being able to bring about further detail and structure to my writing. I'm ecstatic to complete composition course. I feel this course will teach me to efficiently read and take notes. English composition appears to improve overall student performance. Inventory: Upon completing the inventory quiz, it was determined, my learning style independent, creative, spatial, rational, and concrete. The inventory quiz exhibits validity,…

Bunch) Plath and Hughes faced massive discrimination throughout their lives, and change was a great necessity. Plath and Hughes insist the inevitability of adolescent rebellion when confronted with discrimination; through punctuation and tone. Plath and Hughes both employ punctuation demonstrating the inevitability of rebellion in adolescents when confronted with discrimination. Plath faces confusion, ”I feel uncertain. What is best for me? What do I want? I do not know.” (Plath) Plath wishes…

characters travelling, is the lack of punctuation. Whilst the passages from ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ include, and imply, dialogue between characters, there is an absence of correct punctuation – specifically in regards to speech marks. This adds to the frantic emotions that were evident during this time period – each character is simply trying to progress forward along the road, as quickly as they can, in order to improve their stance in society. The lack of punctuation in passages help to portray…

like that we will happen in college and to along with improving my punctuation and spelling grammar and getting my essays to a well used grammar level that I can be proud of. When I was in high school we were graded on our grammar very harshly especially on the things I need to work on like punctuation and word placement and I don’t think it helps me and I hope my College Professor's comments will help with my grammar punctuation and spelling to go along with some help with paragraph…

poet to write to his heart’s content without restrictions on rhyme, meter, or rhythm. The most compelling and funky part of this poem is the structure, Felipe did not write “You Throw a Stone” like a typical poem: line after line, with correct punctuation and one space…

The student knows that an "m" has three arms, however he or she does not know which direction the "m" faces. The sample includes multisyllabic words, such as "Saturday," and it is spelled correctly. Lastly, the child knows that sentences end with punctuation, in this case a period. The student does not yet seem to demonstrate knowledge of the difference between upper and lower case letters. Writing Sample #2…

Know a man in the early 1900’s known for his poems written with incorrect spelling and punctuation? Then you would be thinking about E. E. Cummings! E. E. Cummings was birthed upon the world as Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He developed a unique style of writing at an early age, being influenced by both Impressionism and Cubism, and grew up to study at Harvard University. The poet would become a famous writer, but while he was alive, his work was mostly left…

graded on with each of my essays. Those five areas are unity, development, coherence, grammar/-spelling/punctuation, and overall. Out of those five areas I had two strengths that was consistent from essay one through essay four, these two strengths are unity and development. Not only did I have strengths but I also have major weaknesses, and they are coherence and grammar/spelling/punctuation. This semester I have learned how to become a better writer and how to improve on my writing. One of my…

Editing and revising usually consisted of letting a peer look over the paper. As someone looked over the paper, they would have to look for grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation errors. As a matter of fact, I came to confuse editing with revision because I used to believe that editing was revising the paper. I also believed that it was the portion which mattered. However, I came to realize that editing is the first stage…