My Reflection to the Course

               After having around three months in academic writing and reading 1, I have learned many things that improved my learning skills through this semester. I have learned how to find and highlight main ideas in an article, make notes to the important information, and summarize an article. Without acquiring the previous skill, I would not be able to write an essay that requires reading articles to get information needed to support my topic. Also, I learned that plagiarizing meant claiming other people’s information to be you. Plagiarism can lead to legal suit and in HCT student case plagiarism can lead to expulsion. To avoid plagiarism I learn that I could rewrite other people ideas but in my own words after understanding the ideas and highlighting the main points. Also, I was able to take the information that I cannot change and use it as quotation. Moreover, I learned how to use in-line citation and how it can make the appearance of my essay be a bit professional. Before, I did not know how to reference the information that I get, but now I learned how to reference any kind of information, for instance, books, magazine, newspapers, websites, and databases.  I learned how to use useful websites, such as bibme that had eased my work during this semester. Also, I learned how to find useful information from credible sources, for example, HCT library databases. In conclusion, the academic writing and reading course was very useful to me because it taught very useful learning skills that I can use them in my life.

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