It’s hard to admit that the writing you made, your masterpiece, has errors. Many authors go through many extensive drafts before they are satisfied with the outcome of their work. Being satisfied isn’t necessarily having a work of art with no mistakes in it. I make errors in the papers I write. It may be because writing it isn’t my forte. Some of the errors in my papers are shown in the final drafts which isn’t good. I have learned to fix my two prominent issues in my writing parallelism, and comma splices. As well as a smaller issue like spelling. I have worked to not make such errors in my work and if I do how to find and fix them. I have grown as a writer in my EWRT 211 class. Even though there are errors in my writing I also have a strength. Nobody wants to someone to read their writing and find errors in the first paragraph. In Teen Influences the name of a in class paper I wrote it had a parallelism error in the introduction. “...will influence a teen’s ability to make decisions, be responsible and ability to treat others.” (1). Parallelism is an error I make when I have to list certain things. It’s a problem because it causes the reader to not know what it is I’m trying to say in my writing. Having this issue could cause the reader to toss my paper and I don’t want that; which is why I have learned to correct parallelism by making sure that all the elements on the list are the same. If they’re nouns then they should all be nouns. Using the information I learned in EWRT 211 I won’t make another parallelism error in my writing anymore. Comma splices aren’t a good thing in writing. I made comma splice mistakes in some of my paragraphs. In my essay Teen influences I made one in particular. “He works hard, he is a good father yet Joe doesn 't think of him as a role model.” (3). The correct way of writing this would be to remove the comma and add a semicolon instead or make them two independent clauses. Another way is to add a coordinating conjunction to combine the sentences together. If I had the chance to rewrite the essay I would fix my comma splice error by making it: “He is a good father that works hard yet Joe doesn’t think of him as a role model.” This way the paragraph it belongs to will flow a bit easier. Spelling mistakes are usually common in elementary schools, they are mistakes a sixth
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To be a college student and have such errors it’s embarrassing. In the final draft of my essay Teen Influences I made three spelling errors. The three words I misspelled were pressure, whether, and benefited. (1-3). These words were misspelled not because I don’t know how to spell them, but because I had a limited amount of time to write the essay in class. I only had fifty minutes to write the four pages of my Teen Influences paper. The day before I could have written half of it, but I didn’t because I had other things on my mind that kept distracting me from doing the in class essay. It may not seem as a huge deal, but a final draft has to be perfect. To fix the spelling issues I now look up how to properly spell a word I have a doubt on how to spell; and also double check spelling when I am rushed and on a time
To be a college student and have such errors it’s embarrassing. In the final draft of my essay Teen Influences I made three spelling errors. The three words I misspelled were pressure, whether, and benefited. (1-3). These words were misspelled not because I don’t know how to spell them, but because I had a limited amount of time to write the essay in class. I only had fifty minutes to write the four pages of my Teen Influences paper. The day before I could have written half of it, but I didn’t because I had other things on my mind that kept distracting me from doing the in class essay. It may not seem as a huge deal, but a final draft has to be perfect. To fix the spelling issues I now look up how to properly spell a word I have a doubt on how to spell; and also double check spelling when I am rushed and on a time