Post a draft of a paragraph for your first assignment. identify at least one sentence boundary choice you made, and comment on the reasons for that choice and possible alternatives. example of an initial post: when i was seventeen years old and a senior in high school, i had an experience that deeply affected my learning for many years to come: i failed a paper for the first time. okay, i didn't exactly fail, but i got a d, which felt like failing. the grade was unexpected, it affected me like a slap in the face. it was only through the encouragement of the very teacher who gave me the d that i was able to persevere with a more determined attitude than ever. i made a choice to use a colon after "an experience that deeply affected my learning for many years to come." i did that because the next sentence describes that experience, and the colon lets readers know that description is coming. i could have used a period instead, but i think that seems choppier. it would look like this: "when i was seventeen years old and a senior in high school, i had an experience that deeply affected my learning for many years to come. i failed a paper for the first time."