re: How did you learn how to write using (mostly) standardized English?

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My colleagues have always felt differently. Diagramming sentences. Memorizing grammar rules. Worksheets. More of a traditional approach.

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We had all this when I was coming up and I guess it was helpful in some ways. But I always wrote just like I was speaking it. I loved reading books though, so I always tried to emulate the books I was reading.

But, I always just wrote how I was speaking in my head. If there was a pause in my head, I'd place a comma. Avoiding run on sentences. Stuff like that. When I would get tripped up, I would say it, in my head, a couple different ways and go with what sounded the best. I'm not the best writer. There are some good ones here. The way I remember doing it laid the groundwork for when we did start diagrams and formatting essays and such.