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Dear Journal,             Before I took this class, I was expected it to be just like every other regular English class. I thought we were going to read excerpts and articles and examine them. But I was wrong. We had to research for our assignments. We learned many types of genres to write like memo, technical description, and lab reports.  To what extent have I achieved the course learning objectives?             I was able to meet all of the course leaning outcomes by the end of the semester. After every assignment, we wrote a reflection paper and included which of the eight …

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CLO #8

Srengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources).  We had to use quotations whenever we had to use direct words from a different resource. Whenever we summarized something from a resource, we had to cite all of our resources in the reference sections of our assignments. We also had to analyze the way we cited our sources because most of them had to be a specific type of citation style, usually APA format. 

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CLO #7

Practice using various library resources, online databases, and the Internet to locate sources appropriate to your writing projects.  We used various different resources, online databases, and the internet to locate sources appropriate to your writing projects. We had to research a lot for all of our assignments. We used a lot of internet sources. We also used many pdfs from online for our references. The main book that we used was the Markell book which helped us guide through our writings. It helped me a lot because a lot of the genres for our writings was the first time for …

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