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Filed under: Uncategorized — smassa1 at 10:44 am on Thursday, May 6, 2010

Over this semester i have learned so many new things.  AP style writing was 100% completely new to me and starting to write in  AP was a challenge.  However there has been three main mistakes that i have been continuing to make.

1. Passive Voice: When we had to write our midterm about the pink sweater bandit, i used passive voice here and there.  I need to start focusing more on not using passive voice and writing in the present.

2. Numbers:  I am still getting confused as to when i need to use numbers or spell the numbers out.  I made this mistake during a lot of my quizzes during the beginning of class.  I am going to focus more on this for my final so i do not make this mistake again.

3.  My third mistake i frequently make is that i am very very wordy.  I need to not use so many words and make my writing more precise and not so descriptive.  I need to get to the point.  I made this mistake on my midterm and on the feature story that i just recently wrote.



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   dkois

May 6, 2010 @ 1:36 pm   

6/6. Remember that “passive voice” is not the same as “past tense.”

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