Personal Narrative: My Experience In Writing

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My experience in writing is mostly journaling, I write short stories, poetry and have participated in writing classes. I graduated in 2011 with my MS in Adult Education, these past few weeks are a reminder of the involvement necessary for an online course, along with the writing of papers. However, this academic writing experience has already given me pause for learning new ways to do things, researching, the concepts of academic tone, ensuring proper APA formatting, which I have confidence(shaken); but staring at a blank screen attempting to write these different paper assignments is taking more time than I am expected, based on my previous courses. The thought process is generating in many directions at this time. Normally, I am a detailed

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