In my papers over the semester I learned a lot of things about my individual issues with writing. I had big issues with doing comma splices, as well as subordination. With subordination or complex sentences, subconsciously I avoided writing them, and when I did it didn’t always turn out correct. However over the semester I learned to add them in, and do it correctly. An issue that I really need to work on is introductory elements as well as punctuation, of which many examples can be seen in my papers. One specific example was in my showcase project, “As Gee says these mainstream Discourses require conflict with one’s home life, but then he adds the part about women and minorities” and “Delpit explains it as such ‘The second aspect of Gee’s work that I find troubling suggests that an individual who was born into one discourse with one set of values may experience major conflicts when attempting to acquire another discourse with another set of values’ (546-547).” In the first quote the issue was the “As Gee says” portion which should have been “As Gee says,” and although this is a small problem, it was seen many times in this paper. The second quote has a problem in the punctuation before the quote, which I made the mistake many times. 

Although I got much better, proofreading is still a section that I will continue to work on getting better at. At the beginning of the semester I had little experience truly revising and proofreading my papers, and this semester taught me a lot of skills that I have and will continue to develop in order to make my writing assignments even better. With more work, and maybe a few lessons these skills will become easier, and hopefully sooner rather than later I will be able to do them with mastery.