Feedback on writing helps me to improve

In the past few years I learned that recieving feedback on writing is very important and helpful for my writing skills.
In the writing skills classes in my home- university I always had to write a first draft and afterwards a second draft of an essay. When revising a first draft I used feedback sheets which I got from the lecturer. On the feedback sheets I could see which areas of writing needed improvement and which mistakes I made when writing the first draft. This really helped me to work on certain problem areas such as tenses or syntax and thus to improve these areas. Consequently, all my second drafts were much better than my first drafts.
At the beginning of my study I did not know what I have to pay attention to when writing an essay. I did not even know that there are so many grammatical areas where you can make mistakes. Now I also know that teachers pay attention to everything when they are correcting an essay and that the layout and structure are almost as important as the actual content of an essay. Knowing all this, I could also improve my first drafts because I knew which areas of writing represent a problem for me and that I had to pay special attention to these areas.
That is why I like this writing skills class. I get feedback for my essays and I have the opportunity to revise and thus improve the first drafts which reminds me of the writing skills classes in my home-university. Obviously, writing skills classes are quite similar in every in country.

University Writing

When I went to high school one of my subjects was the English language. Actually, I did not have many writing assignments, but I liked to write in English. I think that at that time my strengths in writing were for example to summarise a story. That was easy and I liked to do that. Moreover, I thought that I was a relatively good writer, but after doing my A-levels I went to university to study English and that is when I noticed that I was not as good as I thought in English writing. From the first semester onwards I had writing skills classes where I had to write essays on different topics, such as Cause and Effect essays and a Statement of Purpose. The first thing I learned was formatting, which I had never done before, respectively, I did not need to do that at school. Furthermore, I learned many other things such as structuring and planning essays. Sometimes I felt as if I had never written essays in English before since everything was new to me and I had to get used to all the essay requirements of my lecturer.
Fortunately, the writing practice over the past four semesters has had a huge impact on my knowledge of writing academic essays in English.