In this class I have learned so many new skills and techniques that will most definitely help me in life. For example I have learned to think fast and get ideas quickly for my essays. One thing that has really been a challenge for me, before I came to this class, was getting details. Since I first came into this class I had to be able to type quickly and to get my ideas fast so I could have enough time to edit my paper. While doing this I got see that typing freely works much better than to brainstorm before, but brainstorming does help to get your essay organized. Then again the outlines to that job as well. I was surprised when we were working on our argumentive essay that we at to do five different outlines. At first I was confused but then I realized that the four outlines we did were to be used to gather information that we were going to include in our final outline.