Personal Narrative: Improving My Writing

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Would I be able to do it? That’s the first thing that came to my mind when I was looking into all the English levels I had to take for my Associates certificate. The reason for my reaction is because my first language is was so the reader can have a better view point of what I’m talking about, instead of waiting until the end of the essay to see the picture. Spanish. So far I can say I had learn so much in all my English classes, but this one has taught me many different ways on how to improve my writing like from summarizing, to comparing and contrasting to write a good essay.
The first course outcome is “summarize selections from the reader” this outcome expects students to not just read the authors words but to take all the meaning and

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