Grammatical Errors In Middle School

At the beginning of the year I was overwhelmed with everything that AP threw at me. From essays every other week, reading more books than I have in a year, and the definite proof that my writing was nowhere close to college, even junior level writing. I would make up words, I misplaced commas, rush through the material, not be able to finish essays in the required time, and make many grammatical errors. Today I make sure to check my essays and see if there is anything that needs fixing, or if I didn’t make thoughts to well known. Now when I write I make sure to use strong vocabulary and check if some the words that I used to describe something could be more impactful. Today I enjoy sitting down and reading a book and analyzing them to further understand the message or story that it is trying to tell.

The worst example that I found was on an essay we did about the internet and the effects that it has on basic human cognition, mind that this is the first sentence, “so is the internet making us smarter or stupider,”. From the punctuation to the word ‘stupider’, which isn’t even a word, made the rest of the essay mute as that first sentence would have made a teacher cringe and lose interest in reading the rest of the essay. Today I try to start with more of a strong statement that catches peoples attention, and tells the basic message or name of the characters in the passage, “In the story The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the reader follows the story of an Edna Pontellier through her conundrum of trying to better understand herself and these new feelings that are being awakened within her”. This is a vast improvement from the beginning of the year, this names the character of the book, names the author, and gives a brief description of the characters