Trying to Hold It Together

[yonkyu]

Erin, you did a good job of covering the topics of the prompt. Some of your sentence structures are awkward. Try reading your paper out loud to see if the sentences are formed in a way that you would speak. Sometimes this is a good test of the “readability” of our writing. This is a good way to find sentences that don’t “flow” the way that we want them to. Let me know if you have any questions about the comments in your paper. TD

This was my professor's comment about my recent paper I wrote that I spent 5 and a half hours on.

Grammar is going to be the death of me - it really is.

I try to stay strong and keep my emotions under control but its hard. Now I need to spend MORE time on my homework that I just don't have. It is so frustrating.

I'm never going to get it. I just want to cry and give up. I want to give up so much and I push myself so hard because I have a 4.0 GPA. I have NEVER achieved an A in any of my classes growing up. I am proud of these accomplishments I have made through my Master's Program. Now I know what I will be doing after I complete my Master's. I will be taking a GRAMMAR class. I don't know why I get overly emotional about it but I do. So now I have to be even more aware of what I write and HOW I write it. It's still a good grade, a 3.5 out of a 4.0 but its more about the grammar and comments about my writing. I know stuipd right!!

Someday I will get it!! I hope.

Comments

[yonkyu.livejournal.com]

Thank you hun!!! I will work on it. May be the more I work on my writing skills and I will improve. I will try the reading out loud thing, but I feel so uncomfortable about it. I will have to look up grammar and see how it will support my writing skills. Any suggestions on the sites?

I was thinking that myself about the professors writing style. Though at the time I was more upset about the comment than anything else.

I am proud of myself; it makes me stride to continue the hard work I put into my assignments. I will continue to work on my writing and hopefully my skills will improve. It takes time and practice!!! Thanks for the encouragement and support!!

HUGZ!!

[saltandburnboys.livejournal.com]

Definitely - the more you write, the more you'll improve.  Honestly, I just read my sentences over in my head a couple of times.  It's not quite so cringe worthy that way, and you still get a feel for the flow, IMO.

I often use this one for help on commas - 

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

Commas are my main issue, but I think the second site also has pages for other aspects of grammar here -

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Hope that helps.  I'm always here if you want any advice/help. :-)

xx

[yonkyu.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the websites. I am totally going to check them out.

The advice so far is to keep on writing. Including yourself :)

And maybe I could send you something to see if its on the right track.

hugz!!