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During this semester I think my writing have been improving. At the beginning of the semester I had many errors in subject verb agreement, wrong word use, and miss of articles. Recording the errors in the pattern sheet helped me to realize my writing was not as good as I thought. The errors pattern sheet showed me my usual mistake, which is almost the same over and over. Therefore, after recording many times I started to pay more attention in my common mistake sentence situation. I think these mistakes are made by lack of revising the paper. I am a faster writer, so maybe as the idea came out I forgot to revised and read out loud I start to miss some articles in the sentence or words that are important. Other occasions is when I use the wrong word thinking that this word is the meaning that I meant in the paper, so I used many words that sounds alike, but the spelling was different or words that are similar to Portuguese, but does not have the same meaning. In addition, the most common mistake made by ESL students, which is the subject verb agreement and these errors are very often in my papers. After, knowing this problem I start to revise my paper marking all subject in all sentences; then, I could see clearly which conjugation of verb fit perfect in the sentence. Moreover, the number of the mistakes start to get lower and lower. In sum, I think I have been improving, gaining confidence to write and the idea of recording the error is a perfect way to understand your errors and recognized them.