Blog Post #2

The first mistake is "Wyview Park and Heritage Halls have visiting hours just like Helaman Halls, however their visiting hours are every day for around ten hours." This sentence is a comma splice because I joined two independent clauses with a comma. The corrected sentence should look like this "Wyview Park and Heritage Halls have visiting hours just like Helaman Halls; however, their visiting hours are every day for around ten hours."
The second, third, fourth, and fifth mistakes are "Unlike in the summer and fall semesters where students are able to socialize outside due to the nice weather, they don't have that luxury in the winter semester." This sentence is a comma splice for the same reason as the first mistake. The other mistakes are that summer, fall, and winter semesters are all proper nouns so they should be capitalized. I may have just cheated but there are five mistakes so I'm just going to write the revised sentences with the four mistakes fixed, "Unlike in the Summer and Fall semesters where students are able to socialize outside due to the nice weather. They don't have that luxury in the Winter semester."
On the issue of peer reviews I really find them helpful because the more people that read your paper the better it can be. I also think that when you look over your own paper you tend to miss some of the grammatical errors unless you are specifically looking for them. Whereas, when someone else reads them they are able to see a lot more mistakes, and when there are three to four different people looking over it the mistakes will most likely all be found.