Overcoming a Language Barrier was my strongest overall essay even though I did not receive a higher grade than my first essay. I say this because I had more background information regarding overcoming a language barrier. Having a lot of background and personal information about this helped me easily set up a strong introduction, body, and conclusion. However, I made a few more mistakes in this essay than in my first one. From the start of my essay I made a comma splice mistake, then eventually had a few more later in my essay. I had a total of 3 comma splice’s throughout my paper. All three comma’s caused run on sentences. Instead of using comma’s, I simply needed periods to give my sentence’s more structure. I received a 2/4 in the clarity/syntax category because I had three or more sentence structure errors. This brought down my overall grade a few points. Knowing that I am a quick reader, I don’t realize that some of my sentence’s are run on and need periods. Other than comma splice’s, I tend to make a lot of lazy mistakes that are also causing points taken off. For example, I had a few misspelled words that caused my sentences to sound informal. In addition to having misspelled words, I did not capitalize specific words that needed to be capitalized. One capitalization error came the start of a new sentence, and the other was a specific name of something. Next time I will need to be more careful when it comes to either placing a comma in a specific area, or just ending it the sentence with a period, otherwise it will cost me more points. I received an 88/100 on this essay, and I believe that this was well graded despite the lazy mistakes I made in the introduction, throughout the body, and ending with the conclusion.