Throughout this course,Ive learned and improved significantly with my writing. I developed skills I didnt have before coming into this class. Paper one, two and three were all challenging in different aspects. A very useful writing technique I learned was that all essays dont have to follow the five-paragraph essay structure that my high school taught us to use for almost every assignment we ever did. I always felt restricted and pressured to follow exactly that format and now Im able to be open with my own ideas and body structure. In doing this, I feel my writing sounds less forced and more understandable. Another significant difference I came across was the word count. Ive never written an essay that was more then three pages until coming into ENC 1101. This alone was a big difference that was hard for me to adapt to and meet the word requirement. I found myself repeat things I already said in a slightly different way but it meant the same thing. Also I never wrote four rough drafts before and then a revision. This allowed me to visually see how Im improving and that Im noticing the little errors that I could prevent. Without doing multiple drafts and having the privilege to peer grade, the essay I would of submitted would lack in many areas. Having students and my teacher critique my writing in an encouraging but useful way helped me further understand how I can improve. The one problem that stood out to me while doing my revision for all three papers was that I dont go in depth enough about a certain subject matter and left the reader with questions wondering why or how. Furthermore, I saw the improvement from the first paper I turned in this semester to the last essay. It was an outstanding difference and great to know Im improving after writing for all these years. Paper Two was by far the most challenging essay and my grade showed that. My ideas were well developed and I had the right idea, however, I went into too much background and that wasnt required for this essay prompt. In doing that, it lost the focus of the assignment and made the reader wonder why I was sharing that information. I always thought it was important to give an idea of everything going on in the introduction and then go into detail about the why he choose to make the lyrics so different from the video. However, I receive helpful advise from the reading writing center and the gentlemen informed me that providing background information about the artist is useful in some papers but not paper two in particular. Additionally, I struggled with citing my source throughout my essay and with the work cited page at the end. I was never properly shown how to do so and I struggled with following the examples on the Internet. I was able to make improvements and further learned how to properly cite the sources needed. Another problem I faced in my final draft four that I changed in my revision was how much I used the word I. Paper two was a formal paper and the assignment wanted me to address why the artist had such a different message in the text and visuals alone. I stated over and over again I thought and I interpreted and that made me sound less convincing and too much of my opinion even thought this is somewhat of my own interpretation of Hoziers song Take Me to Church. In my revision, I changed my entire sentence order and structure and that helped clear everything up and follow the assignment guideline accurately. Additionally, Paper One was somewhat of a challenge. In the beginning of my essay, I started off strong with the minor error that I started my introduction hook sentence off with a fact, which isnt allowed in a personal narrative. The hook itself should be about me and set up the tone for the rest of the paper. I didnt have as many areas I needed to revise like I did in paper two but I had a specific problem I needed to address that occurred later in my paper. I began to start talking about how Facebook changed over the years and why Im a Facebook user now unlike the previous years before. I lost my story line and began to sound like a saleswomen for Facebook persuading people to use this beneficial website. I corrected that error by tying it all back into how it help me in a positive way by not being allowed to make an account when it was popular and the cool thing to do. Just like my other papers I had little mistakes that were simple to correct but if I reread it though one more time, I could of potentially seen them myself. Its important to do multiple drafts and edits because this is an excellent way to catch them yourself, making your writing look cleaner and not rushed. Lastly, Paper three was a fairly easy essay for me to write. I felt it was easier because I was very passionate about the topic I chose. The Mentos advertisement clearly was stereotyping the weight of a woman and leaving it up to men to decide what they believe to be beautiful. This isnt how we want our society to go about friendships or even relationships and thats why I created an anti-advertisement. I tried as politely as I could to address the girls by description of the overweight/heavyset girl and petite/skinny girl. I contemplated changing it to as the taller or shorter girl but then I thought I would get off track with the topic and it would get confusing as I went along. Like I said in paper two, I came across a similar problem with citing my sources throughout the essay. I was able to make this correction in my revision to help further improve my grade. In conclusion, this course has taught me plenty of useful strategies I will remember in all the papers I plan on writing in the near future. I will recall and use all the critiquing notes I received throughout these three papers and ask myself those same questions while Im re-reading my own papers before submitting them. It was evident that just with this course itself, I already made an improvement with my writing. I feel this course has prepared me greatly for the next English courses I plan on taking during my college career.