English 101 Reflection

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One of my biggest challenges in English 101 has been the lack of confidence in my writing. Whenever I have writing assignment, I get anxious about the entire process. I have hard time organizing and choosing the right information to put in my paper. Also, I have a writer’s block. I think I have these problems mainly because I do not have previous writing experience. I got my first exposer of college-paper writing when I came to the University of Maryland’s Summer Transitional Program (STP). STP helped me tremendously with my reflective writing. During STP I had to write a lot of self-reflection papers, and because of it now I feel confident and have no anxiety when it comes to reflective writing. However, I still have anxiety when it comes

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