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Dear Reader,

I would like to start off by saying that this class has greatly improved my writing skills. Learning the other side of the thinking process was great. I came across some challenges, but seemed to overcome them the more I wrote and practiced throughout this semester. These skills I did learn will help me continue to grow, and take control as I travel my future educational roads. So far this class English 101 has been motivating and interesting for me. Some of the topics that we covered was the cyborg theory. I am a bit on the rusty side with using citations and quotations properly, but I know I have improved quite a bit in a short period of time while working on writing papers this semester. My biggest success, in my opinion, would be my unique writing style writing in ways that I have never written before or helped evolved my brain in another level of success, and my ability to use a broad vocabulary. Since I have been in this class my vocabulary has really improved I have used some words that I normally wouldn’t have used in high school. While writing my essays the biggest challenge that I have run into is using terms and quotes from other sources to back up my main points and explaining the quote. Before I came into this class I had a little understanding of how to place my quotes, but after learning from TSIS has really giving me a jumpstart to what I need to know about templates and inserting quotes from my sources. TISI has helped me make a huge improvement not only in my writing but has given me a better understanding then what I have had before in the English department. The movies in this class have affected me more than I had anticipated in a good way of course. I have never used a movie as one of my sources and this semester I have improved by learning how to do so. Reading about the cyborg theory has been interesting covering aspects and situations in life that could or could not happen, but it leaves a lot of room for the realization of

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