In this last blog post for Critical Thinking and Writing, I just wanted to reflect on all that I have learned in the past two quarters. Because of this class, I have not only become more confident in my writing but also my writing process.
To be honest, all throughout high school, I would proscatinate on papers leaving them literally to the day before. I never really learned or had any process to create papers and properly edit them. However, in this class, I was finally able to create a writing process that would lead to papers I felt more confident about. Even though I still procrastinated for this class, the rough draft that was due before every paper was a small step that let me start to explore my own writing process. In the beginning, when ‘shitty’ rough drafts were encouraged, it made it seem easier and more okay to just simply write. 
I soon learned to just put down my own thoughts rather than worrying about creating a polished product and as I started to do this, I found more ways to organize my thoughts in order to allow myself to just put down words for a simple rough draft. I eventually learned that I prefer to create a rough outline in order to set up a rough skeleton of my essay which helped me to let words flow more easily and in a way focus my thoughts more.
While this was not the only writing skill that I learned in this class, this was certainly one of the most important skills I learned that let me become more comfortable and excited to write papers.