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Using Accurate Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Today we were discussing how important using the correct spelling, punctuation and grammar is. As a group, we talked about any techniques that we could use, in order to help us check our work. We talked about recording ourselves reading an extract from our blog. We thought it would be a good idea to play and listen back to the recording whilst making any notes on any spelling, punctuation and grammar changes that need to be made. Here is my first paragraph from My Visual Diary' evaluation before i recorded myself:

'Our Visual Diary was a project all about developing our individual skills within the Art College. My initial thoughts on the project were that it seemed very vague and I thought it was too open, however over these four weeks I have actually really enjoyed the project and the fact I could base this project around whatever I wanted made it great fun.I posted my project on a blog, I thought about using a journal, however I wanted to use something, which I have not used before. Blogging is a completely new avenue for me, something that I have learnt to love over these past four weeks! In week one I began using Tumblr, however I really struggled with it and could not quite get my head round using it. I then discovered Wix, which I felt I clicked with! So I then started using Wix, which is really easy to use, and it has been perfect for what I have been wanting to do!'

I then recorded myself and this was the outcome:

'My Visual Diary, was a project all about developing our individual skills within the Art College. My initial thoughts on the project was that it seemed rather vague and I thought it was too open. However over these four weeks I have actually really enjoyed the project and the fact I could base this project around whatever I wanted, made it great fun.I posted my project on a blog, I thought about using a journal, however I wanted to use something, which I have not used before. Blogging is a completely new avenue for me, something that I have learnt to love over these past four weeks! In week one,I began using Tumblr, however I really struggled with it and could not quite get my head round using it. I then discovered Wix, which I felt I clicked with! So I then decided to start using Wix, which i found easy to use and it has been perfect for what I have been wanting to do!'

From recording myself, listening back to the piece and taking the time to read through the text a couple of times. I soon noticed, lots of corrections that had to be made. They were mainly pauses. I thought this technique worked really well, with helping me to check through my work and correct certain things.