The editing skills checklist has been an effective methodology for tracking my writing progress and ensuring improvement. When writing an essay for a normal English class I would dedicate my effort to the completion of the essay and the quality of its content. Then once turned in I would see the grade and not correlate that grade with any flaws in the essay. This cycle meant that the only thing that truly improved my writing through public schooling was my own motivation to succeed. The editing skills checklist utilized in University 150 fills the void between writing essays with a constructive methodology for improvement. By filling out the editing skills checklist I am made aware of the mistakes made in my writing and forced to research how to fix them. By design, the editing skills checklist is streamlined for writing improvement. The format is an excel document, a modern standard for clean tables of data. Each category in the editing skills checklist is well defined and easily associable with the underlying category of essay structure it belongs to. In the excel document, each main essay structure is highlighted in yellow, making for bold eye-catching categories. The upper heading is integrated into the same row as the column headings to save space, and improve usability on smaller displays. Each essay to be written in the class has a well-defined column to place strengths and weaknesses in. Because all the essays can fit into one document I can view the mistakes I have made in writing previous essays all in one document. This allows for a streamlined view of writing progress. I have also found the detailed descriptions of many of the rubric concerns to be extremely helpful. These descriptions make it simple to make sense of the numbers used for grading, and much easier to look for reference material to improve that aspect of my writing. Due to its well thought out design and usage in the course the editing skills checklist has been an effective tool for improving my writing.