Developing Self Awareness as a Writer

One really good way to improve your writing is to improve your ability to edit your own work. This can be tough since you always know what you went, but try to pretend that you are someone else reading your work. Ask yourself, "Can someone who doesn't know me understand this piece of writing?"

Read the following link: "Six Common Punctuation Errors" carefully. Which of the errors covered is one you are most likely to make?

Now, choose an early post from your blog and copy and paste it into a new post for today called "Developing Self Awareness." Try editing it and be on the lookout for the six common punctuation errors, in addition to any other corrections you can make.

Consider the following list:

Make sure each sentence sarts with a capital letter

Make sure each sentence ends with final punctuation

Make sure each sentence is a complete thought (if it is more than one thought, perhaps it needs to be made into separate sentences)

Make sure you have spell checked the post.

**As a bonus activity, you might try cutting and pasting the text into a word processor and using the "Grammatik" feature--ask me about this. You can also try checking the results of your work by using Premier Tools.