My first draft for my first essay was a bit bumpy because I haven’t taken English since my first semester of senior year in high school, but I put down my thoughts, worked with peers for review and advice, and then I took their advice to improve my essay. The intro paragraph was especially harder for me. I was able to improve my introduction paragraph to make my point more clear. A good way for me to work through my most common writing errors is to read through it a couple times to catch any mistakes that I might not have caught the first time. I felt that this was the process that worked best for me because when I read through it the first time, I wouldn’t catch too many mistakes, but once I read through it a couple more times, I would notice more mistakes. For example, I would recognize a spot where I missed a period or comma, or I would find a spot where I put a comma where it wasn’t needed. I would also catch some run on sentences that I could split up into two. This worked the best for me because I would keep noticing errors to correct. Another technique that worked well for me was focusing on one spot in the essay. If I noticed multiple spots that needed editing, I would go back and forth between the two, but after a while I started to focus on one spot so I could do my best work editing it and not managing multiple paragraphs. This relates to learning outcome number six because I talk about how I worked through my common writing errors and how I improved those common writing errors in my grammar, punctuation, and spelling.