Outcome 6 (Sentence-Level Error) – Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling). (Word Count: 186).
Throughout my entire time I’ve been writing, I have had a tendency to try and over explain myself by adding extra words that are unnecessary. I would essentially repeat myself by adding a word that meant the exact same thing as the word that came before it. An example of this can be seen in photo 1:
I would often get into the bad habit of not proof reading my work before I hit submit. This would then result in the repetition of ideas such as the description of something becoming “increasingly more popular” rather than the much more simple, concise, and easy to digest “becoming increasingly popular”. As I began to read my work out loud as the semester progressed, I was able to spot these mistakes before turning in my final draft, and as a result was able to decrease the amount of unnecessary confusion. By hearing my words out loud, I was able to easily spot my errors and create the necessary changes to my work in order to get my point across, while keeping the same meaning as the sentence once had.
