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English 1010: Rhetorical Analysis

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Osama Alghamdi
English 1010
Professor David Giles
27 April 2015
English 1010 Assignments Boost My Reading and Writing Skills
As I reflect on English 1010, I can confidently state that this course has been a truly life changing experience for me. This is because, thanks to the five assignments of Literacy Narrative, Non-Academic Discourse, Rhetorical Analysis, Genre Experiment 1, and Genre Experiment 2, I have been able to greatly improve my reading and writing skills. In this essay, I reflect on the Literacy Narrative, Non-Academic Discourse, Rhetorical Analysis, Genre Experiment 1, and Genre Experiment 2 assignments in terms of how they have prompted me to utilize and enhance my reading and writing competences.
While executing the Literacy Narrative assignment, I employed and enhanced my reading and writing skills by carefully studying the instructor’s guidelines and authoring a readable paper. Upon receiving the instructor’s instructions, I read the same to have an overall idea of the subject. I then reread the guidelines, taking note of critical elements. Ultimately, I was able to fully and accurately understand the instructor’s guidelines, thus enhancing my reading competences. Having …show more content…

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