The topic that has been identified as a problematic area to me is commas. I reviewed this section in “The Little Seagull” , and now have a better understanding of where I should place commas in my writing. I learned that not all sentences that have ‘and’ or a different conjunction word has to have a comma. EX. (from book) “Many fast-food restaurants now give calorie counts on menus and offer a variety of healthy meal options” v.s. “The blue ribbon went to Susanna, and Sarah got the red ribbon”.  I also never really had clarification on when you are writing a sentence with items in a series, if you were supposed to put a comma on the last item. I learned that it is never wrong to put that last comma in the sentence. EX. (from book) “Nadia held a large platter of sandwiches- egg salad, peanut butter, ham, and cheese”. It helps clarify to the reader that the items are in fact separate. An element that I can add correctly to my paper using these rules about commas is the element of setting off direct quotations. EX. (from my narrative) “The quote, ‘write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out,’ also is another quote in this article that I can relate to”.