There are many common errors that I find myself committing and find in my peer’s writing. Oftentimes, when I re-read my writing before submitting I find unfinished sentences like “This quote is significant because…”. When I am writing essays I prefer to write as much as I can and then go back and add or tweak my writing, but unfortunately this sometimes leads to abandoned unfinished sentences that somehow snook by my previous editing. This can be as dramatic as missing an entire end of a sentence or as simple as a missing adjective that I was waiting on completing so I could find the perfect word. Another habitual mistake that riddles mine and my peer’s first drafts is a lack of quotes and actual evidence from the text. For me, finding quotes that accurately relate to my thesis is one of the hardest parts of an essay. Evidence from the text is essential to the soundness of my writing and a crucial part of proving a thesis, but more often than not my writing has lacked enough evidence from the text to support my claim. This miscalculation has been an ongoing struggle through much of my work, usually in the first draft. Lastly, I have noticed that it is extremely easy to overlook the simple details of writing due to the fact that we are focusing on more complicated writing now. Simple flaws include mispunctuation, spelling errors, formatting issues, missing page numbers, and more. These seemingly basic steps of writing can easily be overlooked when we focus on the more complicated parts over foundational writing skills.