At the start of the semester I has some major weaknesses in my writing. My grammar was terrible, and for some reason I just couldn’t write paragraphs and pull them together to make sense. I also didn’t proofread my papers, which was awfully careless. I blame this on my carelessness in high school. I got into a very bad habit. I didn’t pay attention, so I never learned the correct way to write a paper with proper grammar, spelling, and technique. Over the first few weeks I listened carefully to everything you instructed us to do. At first it was hard to get in the habit of completing papers in time to submit them to smarthinking, and then turn them in on time, but after I figured it out, everything became easier.