From my first to last writing assignment, I had different approaches on revising my own work as well as working on a local and global level. This shows that I have developed my skills in the way that I revise my work as well as engage with others’. Towards the beginning of the year I focused more on myself and did not want to be critical of anyone’s work because I would feel bad for criticizing when they were trying. As the semester carried through, I began to recognize that I was helping them in the process. Additionally, although I had quotes within the first essay, I did not include the parenthetical citation like I did in the last one. I began to pay closer attention to the MLA formatting of my essays to make sure that I would not lose any points for simple things that would have been able to be achieved with only a little more attention to detail. I also began to have an improved process for revising my essays. I began to appreciate making multiple drafts rather than just a singular draft that I would revise as I went along. I began to have a process for each draft so that each one was expended on until the final. In this final draft is where I made my major revisions. I would read through the essay out loud and in my head to assure that it flowed smoothly and sounded how I wanted it to. Rather than making “local revisions” such as grammatical errors, spelling, or changing a couple words within a sentence I began to focus on “global revisions” which consisted on full sentence reordering or completely reworking an entire paragraph to better tie quotes together and make sure the quote is saying exactly what I want it to for the essay.