Reflection 2

Since the first day of the class I learnt so many things that were very helpful and useful in present period and it will help me in future. I learnt at the first days of the semester how to summarize articles and I have did two, the first one was Robot Waiter Arrives in Abu Dhabi and the second one was Houbara Bustards. For making a good summarize there are some steps that we have to follow beginning with reading the whole article then write the main idea for each paragraph after that organize the main ideas and summarize the article in our own words. Also we learnt how to use bibme.com to put the sources on it but there was one problem for me that is how to get URL for the article but the teacher explains that for us and there are two way to get it first one is to write the title of the article or to write the first sentence of the article in any searching websites like googel.com then we have to cope the URL and put on bibme.com and full up the information like author name and create date and other things also we learnt how to make in-line citations by take it from APA after putting the URL in bibme.com and edit it. When we finished the summarize we have another thing to learn which is writing essay and it’s harder than summarize for me but I have to learn it and I did two and It was about Masdar and other one about Story Of Stuff, I learnt how to make a good essay, by making outline to organize the ideas then search for information that will help me and support my essay and write it in my own words also we have to make in-line citations and put all the sources that I used on my essay in bibme.com and download it as APA. At first it looks hard for me but day after day it look more easily. Furthermore we did online vocabulary quizzes It was long and takes hours but it was valuable because I learnt new words. Every thing that I learnt in this class is important for me because writhing essays or reports is necessary in college or in jobs so I’m really glad that I took this class. I really enjoyed every moment on this class and it was fun and helpful and Mr. Gregory was very patient and helpful he explains every thing we need and give us a lot of information that help us to develop in writing. I really enjoyed this class and I hope if I had class  next semester that I will learn valuable things like this class.