My writing skills have improved enormously in this class. I have learned the importance of doing several drafts. Doing one draft and then changing a couple of things would then produce a poorly written paper. In this class, first you need to start with some sort of prewriting, this is a way to get all thoughts down and organize them on a piece of paper. After finishing my first draft of the first paper I thought that my paper was decent. I then received my critique and recognized that there was still a lot more work to be done. After accepting some very helpful feedback I greatly revised my paper. Every draft that I wrote this semester was greatly improved each time. I look back at my first draft I ever wrote in this class and then look at my final draft on my research paper. This is crucial evidence showing how much I have learned in this class. …show more content…
Correctly citing sources throughout the text and on a works cited page is very important. I learned that if my ideas came from another source that I need to give the author credit. By using MLA documentation, I learned how to properly paraphrase and how to add direct quotations. Before this class, I did not know the importance of in-text citations. I always thought that you only had to cite the author on the works cited page. In high school English classes I never learned how to properly cite. I never used in-text citations and I would give the author credit by copying and pasting the web address unto a separate document. My works cited page have improved immensely throughout the course. In my research paper, I learned how to cite common, library, and internet sources. I also learned how to site an