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During my first semester as a freshman, I learned a lot about writing my papers in the correct form. This class showed me how to write like a professional. The professor saved me many times even through my rough patch and life. I’m taking care of my family and still trying to get through life as hard as it is. One thing my mom and sister helped as well is motivating me to do better, this semester isn’t the best and nothing will ever be perfect but I’m sure the next semester will be better. After this course, I feel much more confident about my work and writing skills, and my papers and articles in a form that people could understand my point, which Is the best part of taking this course. I am very glad that I took this class in my first semester and first year of college. Considering I started with this class in my first semester, I will be prepared more in the future knowing I can trust my reading and writing skills with Grammarly.

This semester as a freshman, I have learned that to be a great writer you must take your time reading and figuring out how to understand the text. Once you master reading and revising your work and others, you’ll have experience from learning as you read others’ work and learn from their mistakes such as grammar or understanding of what they’re writing about. You can also take notes on their successes. Another thing that helps me tremendously is receiving reviews about my work from my teacher and classmates. My classmates let me know what I need to change about my writing to make my paper look more professional and presentable and understandable. All it takes is one peer to change my paper from decent to great. Even if it is my punctuation or my lack of proper grammar. Back in high school, my teacher used to explain to me that in college, there would be no one to make sure that you pass and you are on your own. I agree to a certain degree, my peers helped me through this semester to learn from mistakes and change. This is the point of community and teamwork.

When writing about my unit 2 project, I learned how to correctly cite my sources and pick the correct genre. I have learned the proper way of citing my sources without plagiarism. When using an article or a YouTube video, I made sure to cite those sources correctly to avoid plagiarism. This allowed me to learn the importance of citing my sources correctly and taught me right from wrong when writing my assignments and papers. As I was writing about my topic I wanted to teach my audience about how people can learn survival tactics to keep themselves safe and alive. I would always daydream when I was younger about zombie apocalypses and that gave me the idea of survival in reality. I would assume my audience would be people who want to learn how to adjust to natural disasters. Knowledge is something that we sometimes underestimate, therefore this topic is a perfect fit for everybody.

No matter the age, everyone should know how we could use unity and resources, and environment to better our chances of survival, When it was time for me to pick a good genre, I wanted something that would make people interested in learning and reading about my topic. Therefore the genre I have chosen was YouTube videos. I personally love to learn through cool videos that have sound effects that make the video more interesting for me to learn about. I would like my reader/audience to have a shorter summary in the words of the video to make the idea easier for them to try to make a plan of survival that suits their environment. I believe that people would much rather get a shorter summary than just sit there and wait for tips and survival ideas. I intended to grab the best video to match each of its contexts. So when readers are reading my work, they will be able to see a video that matches exactly what you are reading. By doing this, I have hoped my audience will be more intrigued by my writing and would want to learn more.

When I Look back at my work, I can see how I have changed for the better. When I compare my“DEJ” about “The Mother Tongue” back in week 3 to my recent “DEJ” about “Annoying ways people use sources” in week 12, I notice a big difference. My writing looks much more professional than it did before. My grammar and use of punctuation have improved drastically. An example of this is how I used to answer my thoughts on the quote. I didn’t care much and then I started to put myself in the narrator’s shoes. Expressing your words is communicating your language, I speak 2 languages, and I’m trying to learn how to read and write in Arabic.

To sum up, everything stated so far and end, this past semester, I have learned so much from this class. As the weeks went on the work got harder and getting the work done got even harder. Every assignment pushed me to become not just a better writer but a better reader as well. there were times when I had so much work I had to do, to the point where I lost faith in myself in not just completing my work and assignments on time but being able to complete them for the most part. Times were tough for sure, but once you push through those hard times, you’ll see how much you have learned. I’m a religious person and there is a narration where the prophet Muhammad peace is upon him explained, If there were to be no hard times in this world then heaven would have no worth. That goes for every hard thing not just work