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I honestly have to say that this semester has been one of the tougher semesters I’ve experienced. A big part of that has to do with the courses I chose to take together. I do not feel as though my choices were very wise. This semester I had biology, math, writing, and a developmental reading class. Math and science have always been my weakest subjects, but why I chose to take those together baffles my mind. For this class however, I came in with my head held high and eager to finish with an A. I began this semester with two goals in mind: not to procrastinate on any assignments, and to practice proper APA documentation.
Needless to say, my goal of not procrastinating was a failure. There were times that I really tried to work on assignments long before their due dates but the effort that I put into each did not please me. I am one whom works really well under pressure. I like crazy in my life and I seem to put so much more thought into the assignment when I know that it’s crunch time. Not only do I procrastinate with school work, but I also do it with life. It is kind of hard to
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I’ve never had a problem with just randomly writing before. I do not take notes nor do I do any brainstorming on paper. I am one of those people that get all their thoughts in their head and then I open a word document and get busy on it. I based my argument paper from a personal experience. I did use few statistics, however, when using a personal experience it makes it harder to find firm information. I changed my mind several different times of what I was going to do my paper on. I even got to the point that I had two pages written for several topics but decided to push them aside. I was very hard for me to pick a stance and go with it. For the critical analysis, I can honestly say that I still to this day have no idea what I was doing. My hopes are that the argument essay displayed my hard work in APA

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