I will admit that I did struggle a bit with the "Dangling Modifiers and Parallelism" assignment this week. Although I feel that I did a good job of re-writing each sentence in order to make more sense, I still feel that I am not truly sure if I changed it in the way that was intended.

In my own writing, I feel that I do a good job of using active voice and making sure that my sentences are parallel. However, at my work, I am a chat customer service representative, so I communicate with customers all day through text. This is a perfect avenue to examine my own writing, as I have been doing it for so long that I usually do not have to think very much on how to phrase my responses. From doing it so long, I realized that I have found what works and what does not work with customers and I try to base my responses around that. In examining my writing, I realize that I use a lot of passive voice with customers and I am not sure why. After reading the importance of using active voice in our text, I was able to change things up. It will be interesting to see if active voice resonates a bit better with customers or if it tends to make my statistics worse.

Another area that I struggle is using apostrophes. I truly thought that I had a firm grasp on them, but it seems that I use them very often to show possession incorrectly. I definitely need to work on this, as I was truly embarrassed to realize that I had been using them wrong so very often.

Here is a funny apostrophe mistake that I would often use in my own writing: