As I began writing my Definition paper I had three problems, my thesis, grammatical errors, and finding the origin of my word. However, I struggled with having just one thesis, I had two or more sentences that could had been my thesis. In this paper I only had two major grammatical problem, comma splices, and having strong sentences. Finally, my last problem was finding the origin of my word. The word love has many different back grounds. I struggled with finding the correct one.
When writing a paper you should always have a thesis. It should be one strong sentence, which explains what you are going to discuss in your paper. The details that you discuss in your three body paragraphs should always relate back to your thesis. When I decided on a thesis, I not only had one sentence that could be the
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Comma splices were what I struggled with the most when it came to grammar. A comma splice brings two independent clauses together, creating a run on sentence. An example of how I misused a comma is “Therefore this s when a person is obsessing over someone for what they have not for who they are.” Once I found my mistakes, I went back in and put a comma after therefore, and a comma after have. Doing this to this sentence, fixed the problem of the comma splices and having a run on sentence. Another grammatical problem I had was topic sentences. A topic sentence should give detail and explain what that paragraph is going to discuss. My topic sentences, were mostly good, but were not located at the correct place. I had my topic sentences placed just anywhere in the paragraph, which was not correct. An example of my topic sentence is” My parents are the reason I know my definition of love is correct” This sentence was the third sentence in the paragraph, which was not correct. To fix this, I moved this sentence to the beginning of the third so the reader could understand what I was going to