Over the quarter, I wrote 15 journals, short free writes on a chosen topic, and the third one I wrote was titled, “Learning to Write”. Professor Shen asked us to write for ten minutes about how we had learned or not learned to write. After looking at this journal many weeks later, I decided to use it as my writer's choice piece because I did not think my writing accomplishments would be complete with out it. The journal shows where my writing level was before taking English 98, how much I have improved since then, and why certain assignments helped me. When I wrote the journal, I was asked to explain how I had learned to write up to that point. Now, I have added to it to show how I have further developed my writing knowledge throughout English 98. “I think the skills I have gained in developing all three of these [thesis statements, topic sentences, and organized paragraphs] are the most important skills that I will take away from this class because I will use them the most often in the future.” Before entering English 98, I had never heard of a thesis statement so learning how to construct good thesis statements has helped me to really focus and organise my papers into one main idea.