This text narrates the writing experience of an academic text (paper) written by the students of the fourth semester of the Bachelor of Secondary Education with Specialty in Spanish of the Benemerita and Centenaria Escuela Normal del Estado de San Luis Potosi, generations 2015 and 2017. Conducted under a qualitative approach by means of semistructured interviews, students are asked about the written composition process followed by the students’ difficulties in preparing the paper they presented at the XII Latin American Congress for the Development of Reading and Writing in Puebla, and in the V Reading Seminar in the University carried out in the city of Tlaxcala. It is concluded that the writing process favors the production of texts and the peer review allows to improve those productions in the same way by reconfiguring the concept of writing as a process. Normal school students understood that in order to producing a text it is necessary to develop cognitive skills, starting from reading, searching, analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing information, as well as the knowledge of the textual superstructure and grammatical domain that are required when writing a text. It is concluded that developing a writing competence is a process that requires time.