Commas

Class, some of your trouble with grammar comes from the use of commas. Sometimes you are using them correctly, like the beginning of this sentence: “Jackson County, although tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains, stepped right in and came up to bat alongside those outside the mountains in 1925.”

This is another sentence where you should use more commas for clarity: “WestCare has a long and interesting history which goes back to horse and buggy days and was graciously provided by Brian Thomas in Corporate Relations at WestCare."

Here you should separate the introductory clause (the beginning phrase of your sentence) from the rest of the sentence. For example, a skateboarding essay may include a sentence like “Although many people find skateboarding to be a nuisance, it is truly a sport that works out all muscle groups, and its health benefits are too important to ignore.”

Commas help writers to be clear in their meaning. They help us avoid problems like fragments and run-on sentences. Here’s a link to the handbook that may be helpful:
Commas

Try reading your paper out loud to hear some of these issues. If you find that you are running out of breath or pausing somewhere there is not a comma, that may be a signal to revise the punctuation in that sentence.