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The assignment was writing an argumentative research paper whose pages have to be between three to five pages, and the source materials should be cited using APA style. Seven topics were provided by the instructor. The topic that I chose was US and KSA educational approches. Analysis This short research paper was the longest writing I have ever composed. I remembered the same feeling I felt when I wrote my first essay. I said to myself “How amazing it is to grow!” Writing itself was a learning process. Even though I evaluated my ideas and my supporting sources, while I was writing I re-evaluated them again. For some I thought they would make sense together, but then the correlation was not supported enough. I was so gareful to experience doing what I might have to do in my undergraduate degree and see the weakness and strengths of my writing skills. As an international student who has studied to write for passing a test like TOEFL, I had always learned to start writing immediately and to think while writing, but in this research paper, I went through a lot of pre-writing steps like brainstorming, outline and research process. These steps helped me write my paper very smoothly. Transformation When I went to the writing center, I said that I did not want to use the word development in every single paragraph, but I wanted to have a verity of words to make the reading more interesting. She replayed it was okay to repeat a word. “Directness is everything.”In American system, It is the writer’s responsibility to make the reading as clear as possible and the reader should not need to guess what the author wants to say. Written in March 2014 |
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