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College writing one has forced me discover many new personality traits about myself through my difficult assignments. I now know I am stubborn, mature, and hardworking because of the peer review, a new writing process, and paper requirements. I have grown so much in this one course and await the many new personality traits I'll learn about myself in college writing ii. I will continue defeating my stubborn ideas to become reasonable to my readers or classmates, which concludes that I will also become even more hard working, and grow in maturity as time passes. During my first semester of college, I determined more about myself as a person and as a writer through my assignments.

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