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As a student, I recognized myself in Sommers' description of inexperienced writers. In fact, for a moment I thought that I had some how ended up in the sample of inexperienced writers that she used for examples. Throughout high school, even through AP English, I was never taught how to completely revise a paper as Sommer points out. I always did the basics. I wrote my paper, trying to perfect it the first time through so that when I revised it all i really had to do was read it alloud to myself and correct spelling and punctuation, all while leaving out the word "I". Since I was not planning on being an English major I always thought the best way to go about it wast to use maximum efficiency. This way the corrections would be easy and I could do them the morning before the paper was due if I really wanted to. However, what Sommer has taught me is that you can not only improve the quality of your paper by jotting down the first thing that comes to mind and then later revising it completely, but it also is more efficient. I realized that by jotting down things initially you save all the time of writers block and stalling and just trying to think of what to write. Then i can go through it again, with the blue print already mapped out, and greatly improve the quality, in about the same amount of time.