Steven Rivera Cortez

Dear Reader,

Throughout the entirety of the senior year, I have been struggling with multiple errors. Most of my errors were

either grammatical, punctual. With punctuations, I would either use them in the wrong place or not use them

at all. Through the writing process, I have learned when to properly use punctuations, as well as how to

properly check my grammar including finding grammatical errors. Since writing from the beginning of the year,

I began to notice my writing strength comes from free writing, the part of the writing that comes straight from

my head. On the opposite side of the spectrum, my weakness in writing is textual evidence, to be more specific

citations or even introducing citation. For myself, it is the planned part of writing and not the free-flowing.

Although this year has been a drastic improvement for my writing it still is not the peak of my ability. My goal

for future papers, essays, or letters is to be 100 % in future grading. Overall my main goal is to write well

enough for colleges and have the professor or whoever is grading my paper to say it is an excellent paper

worthy of a perfect score. I do believe it can be worth 100% my previous paper has come close. Since I was

guided to where I am now I would like to thank my teacher, her comments and suggestions really help improve

my writing style and better adapt to writing situations. Throughout the many writing assignments, I have

noticed that writing only seemed dreadful because that is how I saw it, but as I wrote more, and wrote about

topics that actually interest me I realized that, writing is not the boring part it is the topics we write about. My

favorite essay of all time, including freshman, sophomore, and junior year was my real-world examples of

Macbeth’s theme. Writing about people that interest me and talking about how it relates to the prompt

motivated me to write more than just the bare minimum. Even now with no planned writing, I find it a joy to

write straight from the head and speak what really on my mind. It is not just the 500-word limit it is just a

joyful assignment, one that I do not have a problem doing. Because my senior class teacher pushed me more

to strive for a better paper, I feel my vocabulary as well as my method of truly and fully expressing what I

honestly mean have been further enhanced in my papers and essays and research based English work, but also

my speaking in the real world. I will say that I have not been improved to perfect writing status, I will say it is a
drastic improvement from my freshman year, sophomore year, and junior year. My future goals, 5 year from

now I want my professor to use my paper or essay as a good example of what the ideal paper should look like.

For any future readers

Sincerely,

Steven Rivera Cortez

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