Personal Reflection #2

At the beginning of the course I met many things which helped me to improve my writing skills for future by attending the class carefully. I’ve learned how to summarize the articles by reading them accurately and pick the main ideas from each paragraph. Summary should be organized and written with my own words. In addition of that, I have learned how to make a reference by using www.bibme.com. I should copy the URL of a website that has the article that I will summarize it and paste it on bibme.com. After putting the URL I have to fill up the information by writing the author’s name and the date of publishing. The reference must be in APA type. Also the teacher educate us how to put a quote with in-line citation from the source that I extract from bibme.com. The articles that I’ve summarized were about Preserving Emirati Tradition and Houbara bustards. Later on, the subject gets harder by writing essays. To write essays I have to follow the previous steps. But first, I have to make an outline about the essay by putting points or sentences in order to keep the essay in perfect way. Then I make a research to look for the information about the essay and take references.

I believe writing essays by following these steps carefully can help me through my career. I can make projects about my work in the future and share it with my colleagues. Besides of that, by having this kind of skills of writing it will be much helpful for the next semesters. The most thing I found it difficult and exciting is looking for information and make references.