Punctuation

I have never really enjoyed writing this comes from feeling I don’t really have the skills I need to be a competent writer. However in high school I loved writhing poetry I never wrote a journal but I would use my poems to vent my feeling and to basically cope with being a teenager. This would probably be my most positive time with writing after I graduated, I quickly learned that finding the time and motivation to write was almost nonexistent. With no time or inspiration, I slowly stopped…

making me examine a different perspective and guiding me in the right direction. At the beginning of FYS I thought revising a paper multiple times was insane; however, as the semester went on I noticed how exceptional my punctuation became by my third edit and from then on, my punctuation skills continued to grow through each draft of the…

Throughout this semester, I have learned about critical thinking and writing skills. Emphasizing on proper documentation, quoting books, articles, websites, and creating a work cited. With organization, punctuation, and appropriate grammar by learning how to read a document and analyze it correctly to find these errors. I have learned a lot about all these things, even though I still make mistakes in some of these I have learned to be able to correct a lot of these errors in revising. Reading…

they would be put on display in the hallway, and then would be active again going into the section station in the rotation of six different sentences. Assessment wise, students will have summative assessments based on proper capitalization and punctuation of sentences, how they work together in a group (participation), and proper placement of sentences on worksheet, in correlation with corresponding images. Formative assessments include questioning, observations, and discussions among the whole…

toward the Underground Railroad. The poet, Robert Hayden, related to the underlying ideas and meaning by including allusions in his writing. Hayden included the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman and other abolitionists, allusions, and lack of punctuation in his poem “Runagate Runagate.” As mentioned before, the Underground Railroad was a system in which slaves escaped to the North before the Civil War took place. The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, but the slaves used the term…

Question 1 Which sentence uses proper punctuation and capitalization? Winston suggests that the Egyptians ' math was far more advanced than previously thought. Locations happened to include; in a steel drum, buried under a stadium and abandoned in a gravel pit. Joyce discusses the great investigative work done by Calvin Goddard, a New York Doctor. The authors research lends credence to the notion that environmental factors cause autism. Question 2 Which of the following passages is…

about a well that will be discussed. Version A edited in 1890 and Version B, which is closest to the original, by Ralph Franklin from 1999 are two translations of an Emily Dickinson poem that through specific edits such as structure, line breaks, punctuations, and word choice helps influence the version’s overall effect. The structure of a poem plays a significant role in telling a story an author wishes to portray. Structuring a poem in a specific way benefits not only the tone, however, it…

illiterates. Reasons for Arguments in favour: 1. Destroying English language 2. It shows that people have become too lazy to spell and punctuate properly. 3. Abbreviations cannot be interpreted or are misunderstood. Evidence and examples: 1. Lack of punctuation and increasing use of abbreviations 2. “[The dictionary] has removed the hyphen from…16,000 words.” “The spell-check (sorry: spellcheck) …” 3. “…I had assumed LOL meant ‘lots of love’…it means ‘laugh out loud’.” Opposing arguments: 1.…

unique type of poem because of its structure, punctuation, diction, tone, and the amount of literary devices that were used. Structure is the set up of the poems, and the amount of lines and stanzas. In the poem "A Tale Of Fire and Ice" the set up was in two parts. One part is labeled "Part 1: Ice" (Dietrich 1) and the other "Part 2: Fire" (Dietrich 18). Under each part the set up has four stanzas with four lines in each. Throughout the poem the punctuation was constant of where the periods,…

Having found myself in dicey debates with myself regarding commas that would satisfy the need for a mild pause or the full stop that would “totally” serve the same purpose; the fictional yearnings for an existence that would have an unbiased, yet debugging nature that would clarify and put an end to subtle, tricky-little-things have always hovered around my writing table. And here I am, many years later, looking at an opportunity to help a fellow Engineer or a burgeoning scientist shape his/her…