When I signed up for this online course, I thought I knew everything there was to know about English and the writing process. My previous English course focused exclusively on the process of writing well-structured five-paragraph essays. I believed this course would be somewhere along the same lines. I've always had trouble writing papers, so taking this class made my previous English class seem like a walk in the park. However, this course took me out of my comfort zone and helped me significantly improve my writing through assigned essays and various mini assignments. As a writer, I now feel confident that I can develop a strong thesis, successfully integrating sources and citations into my writing to prove a point, and using Of course, I'm not a great writer, it takes me days to develop what I believe the paper to be "Perfect". I have to make various outlines and do some real brainstorming about what I'm going to talk about. Over the course of this semester, I've learned that if you have good sentence structure and excellent vocabulary, you can write less and still get the point of your argument across. Because I tend to overthink my papers, I don't use proper sentence structure and I write excessively. In one of the first articles I wrote for this course, I felt like my sentences were weak and I repeated myself in every paragraph. I would also wander into first person point of view without realizing it. During the weeks of this course, I used the quizzes, textbooks, feedback and assignments to my advantage and tried to expand my vocabulary to make my sentences more complex and stronger. I could tell that my writing improved significantly in my research assignment because I used stronger words that helped create an academic tone throughout my writing. Overall, my sentence structure isn't perfect and it's something I still need to practice with, but it has absolutely improved over the years.