During this semester there have been several obstacles I have encountered within my writing, each essay I wrote obviously got better than the previous. With that being said, I have chosen my second essay as my “showcase writing prompt” not because I believe it is my best piece of writing but because I believe this essay shows the most improvement from the first draft to the final draft. This essay was about the perceptions about a liberal arts education or receiving a higher education in general. Within my essay I stand by the fact a liberal arts degree is not a waste of time or money. With the first draft you can see where I struggled to develop a decent Barclays paragraph, along with picking smaller passages to quote. A Lot of my structure needs work but I believe all the material was there just not easy to find. In my essay’s first draft I just made a claim and added all these quotes in support of it but had no flow to my writing which made my claim seem weak and seemed like my writing was becoming repetitive. However, in the final draft I added a whole naysayer paragraph, although not recommended, helped develop my essay so it had a flow. I Also changed my second paragraph around so that it had more support towards my main claim in the introduction, I also went back through to ensure all the paragraphs did the same. Alot of feedback provided from my peers was more towards grammatical errors and punctuation rather than the structure. Although this essay made me struggle, I was able to learn from all the mistakes I made and incorporated them into my final draft.