for professor Geek

Essay 2 Requirements & Guidelines

Topic: Analysis of Your Stylistic Challenges

Basic Approach: Categorize your writing errors or weaknesses, especially as indicated in Essay 1 but also in your blog posts.

Format: Use section headings and divisions within the section headings as is done in “How to be a Successful Language Learner.” Also, other aspects of format in focus in the first essay (title, name, spacing, file format).

Organization: have a clear organizing principle for your categories such as from easiest problems to recognize and correct to hardest or from least frequently occurring problems to most frequent.  The categories should be in keeping with those considered in class and be the basis of your section headings and sub-headings. For example:

§  Verb forms

o    appropriate tense

o    agreement with subject

§  Prepositions

§  Articles (the, a/an)

§  Spelling

§  Punctuation

o    Run-ons

o    Comma splices

o    Fragments

o    Capitalization

§  Word choice

§  Combining ideas

§  Format

o    File format

o    Paragraphing

§  Other?

Content: Your introduction should briefly explain what your paper is about and indicate how it is organized.

Each section and sub-section should begin with a brief explanation of the problem—using the textbook or a website if necessary—and then list up to three examples of the errors from your work and how the sentence, or part of a sentence, will look when the error is corrected.  If you use any sources to help you in this, be sure to identify them in the introduction or in a footnote.

The brief conclusion will be a reflection on the writing of this paper, especially with regard to analyzing your own writing and your thoughts about how this might contribute to your development as a writer in English. Importantly, the conclusion should also indicate how help from others contributed to the work on this paper. Hopefully, one of your helps will have been a tutor from the Writing Center.

 

 

Word length: 600-1000 words.

 

  

 

My English Mistakes

 

Name

 

            Xxxx X xxxxx xx xxxxxx, X xxxx xxxx X xx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx, xxx xxxxx xxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx X xx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx X xx xxxxxxx. Xxx, xxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xx xxxx xx xx, X xxxx x xxx xx xxx xxx xx xxx xxxxx.  

 

1.      Verbs

X xx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx X xx xxxxxxx. Xxx, xxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xx xxxx xx xx, X xxxx x xxx xx xxx xxx xx xxx xxxxx.  

 

1.1 Agreement.. I sometimes forget to assure that the subject and verb agree with each other. For example:

 

Error                                       Correction

He go to the store..                 He goes to the store.
They stays at home.                They stay at home.

 

xxxxxxxxx X xx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx X xx xxxxxxx. Xxx, xxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xx xxxx xx xx, X xxxx x xxx xx xxx xxx xx xxx xxxxx.  

 

Tense mix. A few times I inappropriately switched from past to present:

 

            1) After I bought it, I take it home.

            2) They arrived around nine. Then I go with them.

 

The verb in the first sentence should have been “took” and the one in the second “went” since those actions occurred in the past as well as the ones referred to just before them.

 

2. Spelling mistakes

            I made several errors because xx, xxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xx xxxx xx xx, X xxxx x xxx xx xxx xxx xx xxx xxxxx.  

 

            skool   à  school

            different > difference

            defiantly > defiantly

 

The first was due to xx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx X xx xxxxxxx. Xxx, xxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xx xxxx xx xx,   The second is another mistake I often make: xxxx x xxx xx xxx xxx xx xxx xxxxx.  xx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx  The third resulted from not carefully checking the meaning of the options given in Spellcheck.

 

ETC