Common Errors In My Writing

When I was a small child, I didn't like writing unless I was writing something I wanted to. As a result, most of my school work was done half-heartedly, because they were all research projects that we had to do. I didn't have any issues with my writing, and my handwriting was pretty good at my age. My favorite books were the Harry Potter series. I thought I was pretty cool to be able to read such a long book, so I bragged some to my friends. The only topic I liked to write about was fantasy. In second grade, my mom made me start writing every day in a wide ruled journal, so I wrote a story about the Legend of Zelda, a video game I liked. I wrote about it every day for a long time, maybe a year, until I kinda gave up, and wrote the last page

The art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.

These errors have weakened my writing and have drawn away attention from my content. I need to pay close attention in the future to these reoccurring mistakes. I have also learnt in this course that long paragraphs concerning one topic should be reviewed, and I should create a backwards outline so that I am able to break them down into several smaller paragraphs with different focal points. I have learnt how important grammar and organization is in my work and that I should not only pay attention to the content, which I have done previously. Grammar can change the whole meaning and understanding of a piece of writing, now I am well aware of this and hope to improve this throughout the rest of the course.

Coming into this class, I wasn't sure what to expect. Of course,I expected to be writing a lot but was unsure of the type of writing and the style. I was looking forward to writing challenging pieces that stretching me creatively as a writer. I wanted to explore how to express myself in my writing because it had been a long time since I'd written a creative essay. One of my main hopes for this class was challenging myself to become a better editor of my own papers. I often find it a tedious and laborious process to find and edit the grammatical errors in my papers. However, this is an important skill that I need to develop for my future as a successful writer.

I utilized the five senses to enhance the visual effect while demonstrating the main idea of the narrative thoroughly. This helped the readers to understand the purpose and theme my narrative. Another strength of my narrative is that it follows the chronological order. I pieced together all the events on a timeline in order for the readers to follow it easily without having confusion about the connection between my past and future events. Some of my older issues that I thought are gone still appear on my paper. One of them is subject verb agreement. I often mix up singular subject with plural verb or plural verb with singular subject. Another thing I noticed is that I do not pluralize nouns when referring to multiple things or places. One of the major mistake that appeared on my rough draft was punctuating “Ms.” incorrectly. This is because I used a software to identify errors related to punctuations and tense. The software identified “MS” as the correct form of “Ms.” and automatically changed every “Ms” to “MS”. However, the software helped me correct some issues with punctuations and right use of verbs. Thus, I thought the software is reliable source for help. So, without proofreading my paper, I copied and pasted it on Blackboard. This caused a high discrepancy in the grammar and syntax of my writing

Throughout your paper I did find a few grammatical, and spelling error. I will try my best to include as many as I found. I will also include the sentence below my comment, so that you have a better understanding of what I am pointing out.

It is with hope that I do not make those mistakes in my own writing going forward as my mind is always distracted and general requires a lot of efforts to focus, fortunately the student guide is a excellent writing companion as it will always remind us of the value and advantages of proper planning

My writing struggles are legitimate and something I have always had a hard time with since grade school. Writing has been one of my worst subjects that concern me because when writing an email or a memorandum, I always wonder what the reader is thinking or saying about my writing. However, there is no feedback and things just move along, so I am happy to be in this course. We have been discussing writing for the audience which should produce papers or discussions with a higher level vocabulary, but these words elude me, along with commas, semicolons, colons and transitional words. Dr. Horgan, you have been spot on with your assessment of my writing, I have difficulties in these areas, and this has been a known fact. Before I started

Throughout the year, my scores in writing have gone up and down but has shown a general increase. My current writing average is higher than my writing average at the beginning of the year which shows my improvement. My biggest problems in my writing have been MLA formatting, grammar mistakes, and commentary. At first, I made MLA formatting mistakes constantly with my margins, contractions, spacing, and headers. My first few writing assignments were filled with MLA formatting errors but over time, as I lost points from MLA formatting errors, I learned to avoid them. Now, I do not get marked off for MLA formatting at all. My grammar mistakes have always existed in my writing assignments but I’ve seen a slight, steady decrease in the number of

My second paper had no title but would have been called “Singing for Masculinity”. This second paper highlights the frequent mistakes that I made because of no editing and not giving working overtime to put forth a quality product. During my first draft I had many comments on terrible syntactical errors throughout my paper especially on awkward sentence phrasing. An example was “...when some athletes join the choir it gains a different perception”. This sentence sounds like I am just talking normally. With phase “some athletes” I am not expressing exactly who these athletes are like football players. This sentence structure does not exemplify who I am as a writer. After reading all of the comments that were given to me, I started to learn

Choose three errors that you regularly make in your writing and include a plan on how you will avoid making the same errors in the future?

The amount of grammer and usage errors today are astounding. Not to mention spelling. If I was a teacher, I’d feel badly that less and less students seem to understand the basic principals of good writing. Neither the oldest high school students or yougest kindergartner know proper english use. A student often thinks they can depend on word processing programs to correct they’re errors. Know way, not happening.

Oftentimes it is difficult to discern the errors within your own work due to misconceptions or flaws in thinking. Within my Textual Analysis paper the main difficulty was a difference between the definition of rhetorical analysis from previous learning. In an attempt to fix it I tried to add some clarity to the meaning behind the points I made because they were unclear and not fully developed.

Since the time I came into seventh grade with my Escape From Warsaw essay I have grown tremendously into the writer I am today. I have learned about many strengths and weaknesses in my writing and I still have a long way to go. I have faced challenges as a writer from the beginning of seventh grade that I still face today. I have learned so much within two years, and feel very prepared for high school.

While progressing through Introduction to University Writing, there were several important pieces of information that served as reminders on how to write properly. Looking back on all of the information provided, the most important guidance I gained was proofreading my writing. No matter how many times I proofread my work, it seems there are more mistakes to be found.