When I first began GSW, I thought that I was a good writer. I believed that I could write almost anything and that I knew what I was doing. I wouldn’t say I was over-confident, but I was really thought I knew what I was doing. Little did I know that my wit and what I call “sassy-ness” wouldn’t get me far. I was writing academically, but not to any audience. Only to myself to get an A. I now see that I have to think about my audience the entire time. I can still use my humor, but I have to bend to the academic style. Essay three really started this thought process and it wasn’t until essay four that I really got the idea. Now, I write to my audience, I express my ideas and try not to leave holes(though that’s still a work in progress) and I carry my writing a lot stronger then I did before.