The mistakes that first- year writers make are endless. The top ten that I think are the most important are, freshman think that the professors will go easy on you because it’s your first year. That is incorrect, they don’t care that it is your first year at college, they think you should work harder than you did in high school. Another mistake is run-on sentences, you just keep going on a thought with no commas or periods. Pronoun/Singular agreement is a mistake using words like everyone, anyone and someone. Misspelling words is another mistake, such as spelling words how they sound. Missing comma after introduction sentences. Citing documents incorrectly is another mistake because some high schools didn’t teach students how to cite documents correctly. Punctuation errors as in using commas in incorrect places. Incorrect words are another mistake such as using their instead of there. Conflict with verb agreements as in current or past tense. Also, incomplete sentences are a problem sometimes students don’t complete a thought but end the sentence.
The mistake I am guilty of is punctuation errors. When I was in high school, my teacher never taught me how to use semicolons. I still get confused now of when to use them. I also never learned when to use colons inside essays or papers. I am still working on that today.
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