Having not studied for ten years, I knew there were several areas in my academic writing that needed improvement. After receiving feedback from "Writer's Diet" on my proposal on "why teachers should be effective communicators" (see Appendix 1), it was extremely helpful on the specific points I should focus on when writing an academic paper; we therefore hope to improve and obtain a clearer and more concise writing for readers. Other resources I used to get feedback on areas to improve were from www.grammarbase.com for my lack of use of commas. My other weakness is not reviewing my assignment thoroughly before submitting it. Now I am aware of what areas I need to improve and hopefully make improvements. One of my mistakes listed in the Writer's Diet that requires improvement is using adverbs and adjectives in the correct form. The first step to overcoming this problem will be to recognize the words that are adverbs; most adverbs end with "ly". I began to familiarize myself with the adverb and adjective by reading recommended books and online resources on the topic and how to place them correctly in academic writing by making sure to follow a verb after writing an adjective and to introduce a new topic with an adjective and don't use too many adverbs in a paragraph so that the sentence is clearer and more defined to the reader. This confuses me, but I'm sure with guidance from online resources I'll be able to figure out which words go where. Writer's Diet recommended limiting my use of be verbs: "is," "was," "are," "be," "were," and "have been." I find that I try to connect my sentences using be-verbs and I find that the end result makes the paragraphs confusing and...... middle of the paper ...... makes sense. My goal is to catch spelling errors and not rely solely on Microsoft Word's spell check and read my document aloud, then read the document again after editing the document. I asked a friend to review my papers before submitting them, and I got higher grades using this technique because it catches errors that I would have overlooked. There are several areas I need to address in my writing that I'm terrified of all the information currently overloading my brain right now. After looking at each separate topic that needs to be addressed and having ways to improve these areas by breaking them down, it seems less scary but will take time in the first few tasks as I would have to focus on these errors more aggressively than before. I'm sure it will be worth it and I hope to get higher grades.