Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling)
At the beginning of the course, I was making several grammatical mistakes and ironed out a lot of them for the final draft through peer review. Now that we are at the end, I am definitely making less mistakes, but more of them are leaking through into the final papers. I think the general decrease in the number of errors is an improvement for sure, but the fact that more of them are now slipping through the cracks means that I need to work on keeping a keen eye out for any mistakes when proof reading my work.
See below for more paper specific local revision errors
Paper 1
In the first paper, I had a couple of local revision errors at the beginning, but most of it got ironed out by a third of the way in. The errors were mainly caused by how I was not finishing a full thought before moving on through the paper and continuing typing.
- The sentence “Their hairstyle … family, and more” isn’t a full, coherent thought by itself
- (has the annotation of “L: not a sentence”)
- There is an agreement error with “by our own perception” with ‘our’
- (paired with the annotation of “Do you mean … and then back to ‘they’ “)
- Spelling error of “Henncik”
- (goes with the annotation “?”)
Next time, I will make a note to reread the introduction to the paper more carefully and not just focus on checking that the main points are okay. I will also try to slow myself down more when writing so I have a chance to catch the errors as they happen.
Paper 2
Throughout Paper 2, the only grammatical errors found throughout was an improper use of punctuation. Repeatedly, commas were used in places where they shouldn’t have been – particularly used before quotes. Also, there was an improper integration of a semicolon.
- In “…no longer have a shield to hide behind; Hence, people…”, the word Hence should not be capitalized
- (has the annotation “usually the second…with a capital”)
- There should not be a comma after daughter in “…worried that her daughter, “will internalize…” when integrating the quote
- (has the annotation “L: comma)
Next time I will more conscious of when it is and isn’t appropriate to use a comma to introduce a quote.
Paper 3
In Paper 3, there weren’t many local revisions and the ones that did exist were when I used the wrong version of verbs or had unclear pronouns.
- The word “take” links to the comment “L-grammar check is right”
- Should be “taking”, not “take”
- The sentence “start to picture…their opinions” has the word “their” link to the comment “outsiders’?”
- Unclear language – should have repeated “outsiders” instead of using the more general “their” when discussing two separate groups of people in close proximity
Next time I will be more conscious of which group of people a certain word is relating to and make sure I use the proper language to convey that.
