Punctuation has always been tricky for me. I feel like I am a good speaker, but writing those words down on paper and doing so correctly is another story. This week’s assignment was a tough one for me, especially when it gets really technical. One thing that I learned about myself is that I tend to use commas too much, so I am going to try and really think about when it is necessary for a comma and when it is just extra fluff.

A new rule which I learned for AP writing has also to do with commas. I found out about the serial comma, and I found out because I missed the question on the assignment. I so desperately wanted the oxford comma to be an acceptable answer, but alas, it was not the correct one. The question stated “The flag is red, white, and blue.” Or “The flag is red, white and blue.” The correct answer was the first choice, which really kind of bugs me.

At my job, a new pay structure was released for all sales reps. It was sent out as a letter to all employees, including the owner and CEO of the company. As I was reading over the new pay structure and statements from the newsletter, I noticed a punctuation mistake. I failed to take a picture, as I did not know I would have needed to. It was a sentence that was structured like “…each sales-rep will now be entitled to…” and I noticed that the hyphen in the sentence should not be there. Very small mistake, but it is cool that I caught it!