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In high school I took an honors English course and the AP English and composition course, which were both run by teachers who were very able to teach me, as a student, very in depth ways of critically analyzing prompts and texts in order to write about them effectively and in an academic manner. They were very hard on students and although I resented them often during my time in their classes, I came out of each class very prepared for my first year of college, and to my surprise I was significantly more prepared than a lot of my peers. As I begin this course as a second semester sophomore, I have been able to recognize in my other courses that my writing and critical analysis needs to improve in order for me to continue to be successful as I enter more upper level courses. Therefore, my hope for this course is to gain more tactics for critically analyzing text and prompts so that I may produce long essays that not only meet length requirements, but have high quality content instead of just a few ideas rehashed.
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