If they were still alive, they'd hate me: Strunk and White

Reading The Elements of Style again, I'm pretty ashamed to admit that, although I was enlightened and motivated last time I read it, I'm still a grammar moron. How many times do I have to read over the guidelines before I realize where to put a comma? I'm one of those lazy, willy nilly comma people. I guess it sounds good here, wait, would a period be better? No, comma. Maybe a semicolon, those look cool. I either over-do it, or I don't use enough. I'm extreme like that.

The present participle versus gerund case is still confusing and illuminating as ever. I love how much meaning each word has and what they mean together, but I feel I still make stupid mistakes and misuse everything.
Do you mind me asking a question? vs. Do you mind my asking a question?
Awesome.

Another biggie is being concise. I think because we've been trained to milk every sentence to try to reach the page requirement, we students have become vague and wordy. Sometimes I get stuck trying to convey an idea in a whole paragraph, when it only requires a sentence or two. When a preface for an English SIP has a seven-to-ten page requirement, the natural result is seven pages of long, repetitive paragraphs.

My success story from reading this last time is I have been a stickler about when to use persuade and convince. I usually stop halfway through, "He was trying to convince me" and replace it with persuade. So, I guess I'm making strides toward better grammar, one rule at a time.