Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Key For Writers

For many years taking English classes, I have noticed many weaknesses from my writing and my poor focus to get my work done. Many of the weaknesses are phrase fragment, avoid biased and exclusionary language, vague word and lastly, sentence snarls. The Key for Writers handbook had shown me much descriptive information in very deep details that tell me what or what not to do in my writing. In chapter nineteen, the chapter explains to me what is phrase fragments. Phrase fragments are a group of words without a subject, subject, and a verb. The Key for Writers handbook shows me examples of words that tells me what words, and punctuation that needs to be taken out or added to a sentence. Such as, “The candidates agreed on most issues. Until they debated on television.” (136). The example, explains to me that the period before Until and the word Until should be taken out and have a lowercase “u” in the word Until. This sentence tells me a phrase fragment is a certain word or punctuation that needs to be added or deleted. Another example is “Cold Mountain tells a universal story. A story of love and loss. However, many
Tangle is another word that means mixed constructions, faulty comparisons, and convoluted syntax which is a sentence that begins one way and then goes off topic. Reading the meaning of this sentence snarls I can strongly agree that I do this in my writing, I have a habit of not going into depth in my writing that can lead to the reader misunderstanding and have to revise my writing. A clear example of sentence snarls is, “In the excerpt by Heilbrun and the story by Gould are similar.” (141). In this sentence In the is crossed off and the word The is added. In this sentence, In the excerpt by Heilbrun did not make sense in the sentence. But, when the word The excerpt by Heilbrun is more understandable because you are pointing out the