In the future, I plan to be a
Secondary English teacher. I am still far away from that job especially when it
comes to grammar. Through my time in school I have wrote ESSAYS, STRUCTURE
PAPERS, AND NOVEL PAPERS. [Series of nouns connected by commas]. As a writer I still have areas that I can
learn from especially when it comes to the grammar portion of it.
My first issue is run-on sentences
because it’s hard for me to end a paragraph when I still have so much to say. I
understand that we are college students and should know this stuff by now, but
it still confusing especially when you try to go back and fix it with commas,
dashes, etc. For example, we could be writing a paper on ethnicity and so it
goes like this. A learned cultural heritage of history, values, language,
habits, religion, and/or beliefs shared by a group of people, usually by people
from the same nationality and sometimes from the same race. (This was something
from awhile back ago; it was sort of a definition). To me it seems like a good
sentence, but then again I never really know. As bad as it sounds, occasionally
I rely on word check because they can usually pick up mistakes. I feel like
this area can be fix with just some more practice of writing because I can
learn more hands-on. Maybe by learning to put in COLENS AND DASHES AND
PARANTHESIS [Series of nouns connected by and] I’ll be able to fix this
mistake.
Another issue I have is STURUCTURE,
ORGANIZATION, GRAMMER, BREAKS, AND FLUENCY. [Series of nouns connected by
commas]. When in writing I tend to lose my focus and ideas mesh together. This
creates one hell of a paper to revise. When I am writing my paper I seem to try
and organize the paper correctly in an orderly manner but sometimes it doesn’t
happen. Especially if I start a paper late I feel the need to be in a rush to
get it done. My grammar comes out bad because I am saying the wrong meaning by
it like-Their or There. To me, I know they are different but at the same time
when I am writing a paper really fast, it just comes out wrong. It then comes
down to fluency because if it doesn’t sound good to me, then it definitely will
not sound good to the teacher especially if it doesn’t make sense. My example above
also can work for this issue to because if the sentence isn’t fluent or has the
proper grammar, then the sentence isn’t structurally sound. Also putting in
breaks in papers is also difficult to me because it’s hard to know when you should
move to another paragraph. When you have a lot to say it becomes difficult even
through you can just make it into two paragraphs instead.
I definitely feel that after this
class is over, I am not going to be having a lot of mistakes as I usually do
when writing my paper. We will probably end up going over a lot if not all the
issues of grammar in class, because everyone has their own mistakes.
