Grammar Girl #45 (Comma Splice)

I have seen comma splice errors often. They appear in every one's work; including my own. I tend to use commas like confetti as well. I just kinda throw them in where it sounds like there might be a slight pause. It is a bad habit that I need to fix. Grammar Girl's posts are very helpful. Looking back on several of my writing assignments, I see that I have made comma splice errors, but not a whole lot. In fact, I am probably making these errors as I type. I found an old essay on my computer that I had written back in 7th grade about Malcolm X. In this essay were at least 25 comma splices in the whole 3 page paper. I like to think that I have slightly improved since then, but if there is one spot in the learning of English that I could use lots of work on, it would be comma and colon usage. It is just one of those things that has never come to me. Someday I may master this skill, but until then I will keep on making the mistakes that cause me so much trouble.