I thought at first that this was going to be a great idea to come up with my own rule for writing. However it was difficult to really come up with something that I thought was good. As you can tell from my posting on the wiki site As hard as it is, try to avoid mentioning the assignment and details. As Professor Krause said, this essay should be able to stand alone by itself.-AH I decided on one rule and then changed my mind for something totally different. I think the original idea of commas is too close to rules that are already in place. To come up with my second idea I just simply thought of occurrences in writing that annoy me. I would consider taking some personal pronouns out of here, it is not as easy, but see if you can say it a different way

My style rule is to totally eliminate the contracted word. I understand that these serve some what of a purpose to make things easier and clearer, but I argue that they do not at do serve any purpose. I believe that they actually jumble sentence structure more than help it. They do not save anymore time than actually writing the two words out. Think about it, we are really just eliminating a single letter and replacing it with the apostrophe. For example, I didn't like the movie should read I did not like the movie. When I see contractions in writing I think the writer has poor speech and can not come up with verbiage to replace the contraction altogether. (I'm not following this thought, you may want to re-word kinnell) Too many "I" statements, try to only utilize these personal statements when necessary and instead utilize WIlliams/Strunk & White.-AH

ooh! These custom colors are wicked cool! Yes I think you need to make your paper just a bit longer, I always struggle to review someone's paper when it is only a page long, or like 1/4 of the final required size. It does not give anyone much to work with. And watch the word choice, Do not overuse any one word or sets of words. WORD!