Punctuation errors in writing have hunted me ever since I can remember. They are my worst enemies when it comes to writing sentences in an essay. From my view punctuation errors are not only easy to make, but they are very hard to find in my essay’s after my sentences have been wrote. I can perform the punctuation errors and not even know I even made it. It drives me crazy, because I be having so many punctuation errors in my sentences when my English professor grades my essay’s.
I never knew how much punctuation errors have affected my grade, until I got feedback on my last essay from my English professor, and she said, “the paper cannot pass due to too many punctuation errors”. After that feedback I begin to think of ways that could help me with punctuation errors. I ran cross some helpful punctuation resources that helped me with my punctuation errors, and they were online resources, some strategies, and the writing lab.
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Not just any random online resources, I used the ones that involved punctuation errors in essay’s. The best thing about using these online resources was, I didn’t have to pay to use it and it was easy to use and very helpful. All I had to do was copy my essay and put it in a text box, and the program had done the rest of the work. After I had put my essay in the text box I click enter, and the program calculated all my punctuation errors I had on my paper. When the program calculated my punctuation errors, it had gave me the correct punctuation that was needed for the text. Then all I had to do was click the correct punctuation and it put it in the essay. I never knew correcting punctuation is no longer than five minutes with just a click of a mouse and a helpful
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