world. One of the major writing-related knowledge I have developed through this course is my approach to writing, more specifically how I design the text. Prior to the course, if I was given a writing assignment, I simply organized the information based on how I perceived it would be best organized rather than how it would be perceived by the reader. Now, before even starting to write the assignment, I think to myself whom is this paper intended for and then cater my writing to that particular audience
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Before I took the class ENG 101, I struggled so much with writing. From sending simple emails to people, to sending texts to my children, I had always had a hard time collecting my thoughts and writing them down. I did not think I learned very much from this class, yet I was expecting it to be very difficult for me. Because of my origin, my native language is not English. When I speak, my thoughts usually come to me in Amharic, my native language. It used to be so challenging for me to speak English
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My writing is my running career. It is not always pleasant to do in the moment, but I often find myself very proud of what I accomplish. Like a season of training, my skill has increased with repetition and practice, certainly over this semester. As I put the work in, I have noticed growth in my approach to writing, writing process, and skill at crafting an argument, and further my understanding of addressing and understanding human rights. I find that I write more deliberately now, like following
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What areas do you plan to work on, and why? The areas I plan to work on are the following: writing, library skills, strategic reading, critical thinking and maintaining academic progress. These are the areas in which I feel I need the most improvement because I have been in the IT field for over 30 years. Since I have been in the IT field so long, my writing and research is in a technical format, which has caused me to lose the skills listed above. In this technological environment, communication
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My Final Reflection There are numerous aspects of this course that have contributed to my learning throughout this semester. This course has provided me with new skills that enhance both my writing ability as well as the ability to analyze a film. The two goals that stood out most were to learn to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of view and to continue to develop skills in expressing oneself in writing. I benefited from these goals because I now have a deeper knowledge
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and a better future for my family and me. I recently made a list of goals for the next five years. I decided that one of my major goals is to return to college, complete my education and get my degree. And now I’m back in school. Taking this step shows how I have come to accept responsibility for my future. Although I recognized that I will have to continue to exercise personal responsibility in order to achieve my goal. I. Introduction: Personal Responsibility My understanding and acceptance
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say that I had about a whole paragraph typed up explaining why I never had literature change my perspective before. I don’t like to read at all and I have only read 3 books in my entire life. Two of those books I was forced to read due to school. There was one book that I rented from a library in high school that actually not only changed my perspective but it molded my thinking of what I wanted to do in my life. The book was called House to House A Soldiers Memoir. Staff Sergeant Bellavia’s book tells
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Shitty First Drafts 1. Is writing as difficult for you as Lamott says it is for her? Yes, writing is exactly as difficult for me as Lamott says it is for her. I could not have said it better. After reading this selection from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, I let out a huge sigh of relief, as I had no idea that even expert, published writers go through the same struggles in writing that I myself do. 2. Do you write “shitty first drafts” and then clean them up and turn them in? Or do you
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Writing the Reading Unit Research essay confirmed that I have failed to address that my skills are limited in writing a research paper. Over the course of this assignment I accumulated a respectable amount of data and learned more strategies than I illustrated. I failed to apply concepts from Dr. Case English 3640, Writing in a Second language, class that I had learned. I printed out and read half a dozen articles conducive to the topic of teaching reading. I annotated, highlighted, brainstorming
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reflective statement tends to illustrate my analysis and evaluation upon the development and progress of three particular skills including critical thinking, networking and CV writing skills according to the skill audit record where I have marked the confidence level, objective, actions to be taken as well as measurement in detail. My confidence level of critical thinking increased from 1 to 3 through this semester. I chose the lowest level to describe my mastery of this skill in terms of academic
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