"Hand in a paper, then farewell to it forever." In most classes I took, this was the case with most of my reports. However, it wasn't so in this case. A class only once a week, but the amount of homework overwhelmed me. "Done with three essays, done with this semester." At first I thought it would be the case. However, three times working on the same essay made it triple the work. "What in the world does the teacher want to make us? Does he want us all to be writers or what?" It was a nice way to make me suffer. "What could be corrected after it was written with such effort?" There seemed to be nothing to correct after handing in the first draft.
        "More details? Why? He wants to know even more about it" I couldn't understand, at first, why the teacher wanted to know so much about something he had nothing to do with. Getting back my first draft, I found out there were so many corrections and question marks, want of clear understanding. I never imagined there could be so many weak points in what I thought was an almost perfect essay.
        Reading it over, I for the first time found out the problem, that I wasn't writing to make anyone else understand but me. As I was writing just to make myself undersand, it was natural that many details were omitted. Now reading over the essay from someone else's point of view made me catch that problem of my writing. I figured out that I should write out all the process of thinking and whatever happens in my mind to make others understand just as I, myself, understood.
        Finding missing or wrong punctuation and correcting grammatical errors are some things I could do myself if I worked more carefully on writing. About the content and style, however, it is so clear to yourself what you are talking about, you scarcely could make any corrections in them. Those corrections of punctuation and grammar also helped my writing, but what helped most was looking at my essays from others' point of view.
        Taking others' point of view of my essay helped me to correct my essay, and it worked out to improve it, too--though it was so short a time to make a distinct change. "Not writing to make yourself understand, but to make others understand" is something I have learned. In short, I've learned to always think over others' point of view when writing. This is the basic, key point in writing. It may be too late to get to know that simple, basic fact, but isn't it better late than never?