What I Learned In My Writing Class

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I feel this semester, only the first I will survive, was a successful one. I feel that one of the objectives of this class was to make us better writers and I certainly improved throughout this course. I have learned what makes an unacceptable paper and what makes a good paper, and what makes it easier to write a strong paper.
However, this class has shown me how much I should have paid attention to my high school, since my teacher was a lazy grader, I didn’t try as hard and it has certainly came back to haunt me. It was a little bit of a difficult adjustment. I went through high school writing what I know now were unstructured, horrible essay, and received outstanding grades on all of them. In this class I found it twice as hard to write

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