She’d made her way to the brightly lit back porch while lost in thought and , took a moment to observe the Christmas lights twinkling along the edges of the roof, the freshly decorated tree in the window, the window clings with of snowmen and reindeer.

Then again, ethics had no place in the scientific world, she . She remembered when she’d been younger and , conducting her own scientific experiments.

Reason: comma splice, but also, God, I hope ethics have a place in science.

Did it remain in the same place, or did it eventually try to crawl its way out in self-preservation, perhaps did ? Would it really sit there in resigned silence?

Reason: run-on sentence

From where she stood, the crickets had ceased chirping entirely, and she still had not caught sight of a single lightning bug, or bug—or anything else for that matter.

Reason: run-on

Using the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources Analysis Tool’s questions, comment on a particular area of the photograph and describe what you see, think, and wonder.

“No, that doesn’t sound right”right,” she muttered in response to her own question.

Even the land around her home had seen its own fair share of growth, condos . Condos went up and , general stores had crowded crowding in.

“It was probably some psychopath using ‘science’ as an excuse to get away with murder”murder,” she muttered into the warm breeze.