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Three Specific Issues With My Writing: Matthew Harrison

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

My first issue when it comes to AP style is using numbers correctly. When I took quiz 15 I supplemented Interstate 295 for I-295, and on homework 4/8/2010, I misused $15,000 instead of fifteen thousand dollars.

Word choice and misspelling of words are the next biggest errors that accumulate on the quizzes and homework. On quiz 17 I would misspell censored with censured, and again with numbers I would spell out 200th episode.

My next biggest mistake would have to be quotations and relevance to information. When I did the assignment Stovall 5.10 almost all of quotations would end with ” said …. instead it should have been “…. said.  Also when I took quiz 17 I did not attribute a quote to a speaker and gave no indication of it even being a quote. Instead it should have been, “might suffer the same fate as Theo Van Gogh,” …