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The extra credit assignments I did are: Coordination and Subordination, Subject-Verb Agreement, Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Adjectives and Adverbs, Apostrophes, Multilingual Writers: Articles, Multilingual Writers: Sentence Structure and Word Order, Multilingual Writers: Count and Noncount Nouns, Evaluating Information and Sources, Cliches, Slang, and Jargon, Numbers, Spelling and creating Plural Forms, Phrases, Clauses, and Fragments, Commas, Part 1: When to Use Them, Commas, Part 2: When NOT to Use Them, Integrating Source Material Into a Text, Developing an Effective Thesis or Claim, Conventions of an Academic Essay, Wordiness, Word Choice, Using Evidence and Reasoning to Support a Claim.

I did all of them because I did not know there was a limit at the time, but it's okay, because I genuinely learned a lot from them.

My report showed that I was confident about having the right answer just about 75% of the time, while I was unaware that I didn't know the answer about 25% of the time. This 3:1 ratio I think is pretty good, the small the second percentage, the better.

The assignment I struggled the most with was the assignment about Style and Word Choice, specifically when it came to the areas of choosing sentences without gender bias and sentences that are most suitable for formal writing. I think I struggled with this because I am so used to "internet language," and making the transition from colloquial to formal writing was difficult. The easiest assignments for me were the ones about commas. I think I found this assignment the easiest because of the way the questions were set up. When given four options, it is pretty easy to distinguish which are incorrect. This leads me to why I think these activities were not as effective as they could be.

Although I did learn a lot from these assignments, especially the ones about research, I think the grammar assignments could have been more effective. I found many of the questions very simple because it can be very easy to distinguish between obvious wrong sentences and correct ones.