Reflection Essay

The time passed so quickly, this semester is almost done. After this semester of study, the goals I have made the most progress is the course Objective 1: “Reading texts from a variety of disciplines in a variety of genres”. Before when the teacher asks to read some articles I will just read it once and get over it. So I often times forget the detail of the story. And have to reread the reading all over again. I don’t like to read something over and over again, because that will make me get bored. For example, my history class is requiring a lot reading, and all the reading about history is boring and long. So I only read it once, because in my opinion spending a lot time in reading about this boring history book is horrible. Unfortunately, we are having a quiz on it, I start to recall, and I have some blur memory about the book. So I take out the book, and start to read, but is all too late for it. I have a bad grade on it, I will forever remember this lesson. If I read more in-deep and carefully, I might not get a bad grade on my history quiz. In order to correct my reading process, I decided to use sticky notes and

In High School, I haven’t do any work cited, so I don’t really know how to do it. In College, some professors does not require citation, so I don’t have a lot chance to work with it. Citation might be a small problem, but it could cause plagiarism, which is a very serious problem. Reading sources can help me to know how doing a good paper and use my own words to explain someone’s ideas. However, the powerful thing is when I read a book or a useful sentence because I can use quotations to mark someone’s work, and connect my real experience to show my mind. But I didn’t know that if I used someone’s work I had to mark a quotation with those words or even we put it in our own word, we still need to cite it. It is what I learn new and is very important for any