On Monday, our class did a few exercises to prepare for our mid-term exam and we covered some new material discussing proper writing techniques. One of these new techniques was looking at words called peacocks and weasels. Peacock words are ones used to show off, or strut your stuff; like a peacock. This describes words that are of extential vocabulary that often don’t get the idea across. Weasel words are ones used to beat around the bush and send a confusing message. If a student writes an essay about a subject, and one topic they don’t understand they will use weasel words or techniques to get away from that topic and move on to the next section. Another technique we went over was how to correctly use the comma. Some examples are to enclose parenthetic expressions between commas. Depending on the flow of the sentence, commas may be omitted. Clauses introduced with where or when are usually punctuated. For example, In 1996, the
