In the last three years, my writing has drastically improved. The essays I wrote during my freshman year were extremely choppy and lacked a fundamental lack of understanding of language and writing skills. As my writing progressed, not only my understanding of language, grammar usage, and spelling, but also my usage of writing structures and different essay styles improved as well. When beginning to write in the AP language class, my writing was extremely rough, hard to read, and —-. In August of 2023, I wrote my first rhetorical analysis on Pema Chodron’s Start Where You Are. After looking back on the essay, there is a lack of different types of sentence structures. The essay has little to no commentary throughout and what little commentary