Well, I suppose one of my biggest grammatical issues would be with redundancy. In trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about, I often make things much wordier than they should be. Of particular note is my issue with saying “Four a.m. in the morning.” I mean, I already said a.m., isn't morning implied?
Of course, there is one grammatical error that other people make that gets on my nerves more than anything else, and I will interrupt people in the middle of anything to correct. That is, when people say “I could care less,” I get rather frustrated. That's saying that you do care, and thus have the ability to care less than you currently do. The correct way should be “I couldn't care less.” That way, you are stating that you have no caring for it, and therefore could not possibly care and less than you already do. Please don't do this people.
Wait, we're supposed to do research on a rule? I'm not sure how I'm supposed to studiously study on redundant redundancy in my written writing. Oh, apparently I also use redundancy when I use acronyms, like PIN number or ATM machine, which makes sense.
Another thing that will sometimes mess me up is when I use text-speech in my academic papers. This usually only happens after a long summer of being on my computer. Even then, I typically write just as impeccably as I do usually, except for three things. I don't capitalize often, I don't put my apostrophes in contractions, and I say “u” instead of “you.” Of these, my writing programs auto-correct capitalization and contractions (which I really shouldn't use in the first place (ha, shouldn't)), but sometimes I let a “u” slip by and my teacher will correct it with a smiley face. Although that really only happened in high school, and I think I have yet to pull that off in a college paper.
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