In this essay, I learned from my mistakes and what my grade turned out to be was helpful to me. I learned that I need to improve on my attention grabber and organization. I also learned some skills that I am strong in. This essay helped me get an idea of what I needed to do for my future writings. It taught me that I needed to make sure that I stayed on task throughout the entire writing. On the next essay, I thought about what I needed to do to improve my writing skills. It must have worked because I ended up getting a 100%. While writing my next essay, I was thinking about what I did poorly on in this essay and also what I did good on. I focused on making my essay better than my previous one. The Crime Rate Editorial helped me learn my strengths and weaknesses so I could do better on essays that I wrote later on.