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Throughout this English 280 course I have learned many things about reading, writing, research, and critical thinking. I have also learned about what potentials I have as a writer and what I can improve when writing. In this process I had also encountered some difficulties when it came to writing. At the same time I also feel that the difficulties I encountered have made me improve from my first essay to my recent essay when it came to the genre, process of writing and the rhetorical language used when writing. Even though my progress was not at all constant I still was able to earned satisfactory grades and learn more with each assignment. I still feel that I need to improve my writing and reading because I will need to use it for future courses, life events and career. When it comes to reading, I believe that I have improved because I am able to read and identify my own punctuation errors better compare to the beginning of the semester. In writing I also feel that I have improved because I am able to better organize and express my ideas. I am able to make better word choices as well as rhetorical language choices to get readers attention. …show more content…

I am proud of this essay because it was a challenge but it made me out a lot of effort to accomplish it. This essay brought many challenges because I had to do lots of research and at the same time make the information gathered into an argument. I am proud of what I did for this essay because even though it was challenging I was able to earn a satisfactory grade for it. The work cited page from the Research Argumentative essay was less marked by the professor unlike my previous work cited page as shown in (artifact 5) which showed me that I need to still work on my citation but there is improvement between

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Reflection On The English 1301 Course