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1st Semester Reflection

This semester started with online classes on Microsoft teams. I had a few issues with the microphone while in the call and sometimes had bad wifi connection, which made it harder for me to participate in online classes. other than that, writing my book review during the break was not a big problem. I learned a lot about writing reviews and making my writing better. I thought used numerous websites to analyze my writing, such as lextutor and analyzemywriting. towards the end I worked on highering my  AWL score, adding the words of the list into my book review. I noticed that,  just by doing so it enabled my review to be a more mature writing. After school started i decided on what i would want to talk about in my presentation. My slides were done by the time school started and i used editing websites to crop the unnecessary background of some pictures. Turnitin was a useful website when i was submitting my final writing. at first i had 12% similarity and went back to add citations. I realized how important the references were and one mistake could lead to a zero. after that i was able to get to 6% similarity. However, the title of the book and some long quotes were seen as a similarity.
this semester was more about writing than presenting. Writing was always something i was not the best at and i am glad i learned various ways to get better at it. Overall, i was happy with the score i got and would definitely be able to write a better book review in the future. 

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