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How Good Grammar Saves Lives and Other Reasons It’s Still Important

  How Good Grammar Saves Lives and Other Reasons It’s Still Important Your grammar skills, whether good or bad, often leave people with a lasting impression about who you are. Yet  grammar errors are still extremely common as they’re so easy to miss . Unfortunately, many grammar mistakes come at the price of being misunderstood, made fun of, or even losing a job. Luckily,  poor grammar skills can be fixed as long as you’re aware of them . This article will show you how even a little mishap, like adding one comma too many, can change the meaning of the whole sentence — and explain how to avoid it. The 5 Most Dangerous Grammar Mistakes Questionable Commas Possessive Apostrophes Suspicious Quotation Marks Aggressive Exclamation Points Confusing Contractions Experts agree that  incorrect grammar is very quickly becoming a modern-day epidemic . With the growth of social media and text messaging as well as the use of abbreviations, slang, and social media, it’s not surpris...

Topical Essays

  When it comes to   writing an essay , topical organization means describing the subject of your paper one   topic   at a time. If an essay assignment calls for describing something—an animal, a gadget, an event, or even a process—you can use topical organization. Your first step is to divide your subject into small parts (subtopics) and then define each one. Essays That Use Topical Organization There are four types of essays that use topical organization: Exploratory Also called an exploring essay, the  exploratory essay  allows the writer to examine an idea or experience, without backing up a  claim  or supporting a  thesis . This structure is perfect for science essays that explore the characteristics of an  organism . Compare-and-Contrast As the name implies, in a  compare-and-contrast essay , the writer compares and contrasts two different things. English class essays that compare two short stories can be written topic by topi...