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Course overview essay: Writing & Research Process English 102 have opened a new point of view in my mind. I discovered how to do research in a different language and realized that my brain was covered with dust, this is the first time after 5 years that I’m a former student and trying to get a second degree. Before I registered this class, I looked up a website called “Grade your Teacher” and the comments about the instructor were positive, so I decided to take it. At the beginning of this class (back to September 23rd) and after receiving a 0.0 as a grade for my first essay, I knew this was going to be hard, and I had no idea about how I was going to pass this research course. One of the first concepts that I learned was “marginalia” which –according to the teacher’s explanation- means to take random notes about something to think later. This class was described as a journey in which we wouldn’t know the results till the end of the quarter, and even though it wasn’t easy to make it, here I am. Now I’m exploring how my skills as a writer and researcher have improved over the last thr...

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