Dear Professor, My Advanced communications class has been one of the most beneficial classes that I took this year. Most of the techniques that I learned were new to me. The class taught me how to professionally write understanding papers. We mostly focused on specific areas of writing like dangling modifiers, subject verb agreement, and the use of commas. I am proud of my accomplishments and improvements in my writing skills. This paper focuses on my satisfactions and dissatisfactions with the course: focusing on paper organization, PIE paragraph structure, citing sources, and room for error. First, I was satisfied with my instructors focus on paper organization. Before coming into the class I never noticed how unorganized my papers would be. My papers had no structure at all. My paragraphs often lacked an introductory and concluding sentence. The importance of these sentences was stressed in class, introductory and conclusion sentences helped incorporate the main idea of the paragraph. From that point on I made it a rule for me to have an introductory and conclusion sentence for every paragraph in my papers. Also, my thesis statement was a main factor in the wrong place. When writing my papers I placed my thesis statement somewhere randomly in the first paragraph. By just randomly placing my thesis statement it made my paper harder to follow. My instructor encouraged that the thesis statement be placed at the end of the introductory paragraph. I followed her instructions and it made my paper easier to understand. Through our focus on paper organization I gained the skills to write a organized, understandable, and focused paper. Next, PIE paragraph structure was something we focused on that had a good effect on my writing skills. Before coming into the class I had no idea what Pie paragraph structure was. My paragraphs were not structured at all. PIE paragraph structure focused on the structure of the paragraph. In class we were tau