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Reflective Overview

The reflective overview details Rayyan Khalid's learning experience in the Analytical Writing Program 3, highlighting significant improvements in academic writing and analytical skills. Khalid emphasizes the development of structured essays and the incorporation of ideas from various sources while adhering to academic integrity principles. Despite acknowledging some weaknesses in body paragraph construction and vocabulary, Khalid expresses a commitment to enhancing writing skills moving forward.

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Reflective Overview

The reflective overview details Rayyan Khalid's learning experience in the Analytical Writing Program 3, highlighting significant improvements in academic writing and analytical skills. Khalid emphasizes the development of structured essays and the incorporation of ideas from various sources while adhering to academic integrity principles. Despite acknowledging some weaknesses in body paragraph construction and vocabulary, Khalid expresses a commitment to enhancing writing skills moving forward.

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Rayyan Khalid

Professor Carrie Kilfoil

AWP 3

2nd December 2021

Reflective Overview

It could be said that going through the Analytical Writing Program 3 has been an

invaluable learning experience for me, one that will be of great advantage for me while

attending advanced writing classes. The way I approach academic writing has changed

drastically since enrolling in this class. By analyzing all the texts from the coursebook, I was

able to create a question for each essay that could be addressed by all the texts that I selected

and could help me develop my essays. The annotation skill that I learned in this class came in

handy for this purpose. In the S&S Essay, I described the role of bots and algorithms, as

several course texts talked about it, so this was the common topic I found among them. In the

Argument essay, I advanced a clear claim on the subject that how far is social media

responsible for the perils of political polarization for the democracy. I developed my

argument, structuring my body paragraphs around my claim, using evidences from multiple

sources.

In this course I was pushed to write more academically advanced essays instead of

old-style high school essays. Through this course, I not only improved my ability to read

closely and understand other writers' arguments, but I also learned how to incorporate ideas

from other sources into my own writing, citing according to the UCSD Academic Integrity

Principles. Apart from improving my analytical skills, I also sharpened my ability to

formulate a compelling level-3 question or claim that guides my writing. I not only organized
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my essays very well on a global level which can help the reader to follow the essay easily,

but I also tried to apply the new writing principles that I learned in this class, e.g. old-to-new

principle and actor/action principle, in my essays, improving the flow of my essays. I also

used quotations from the texts in the coursebook where it deemed necessary and also cited

the sources according to the UCSD Academic Integrity Principles. On the other hand, I might

not be able to construct a very good body paragraph that totally match up with my claim in

my argument essay, due to the bad structural organization of the body paragraph. I think I

could also improve some of the vocabulary I used to make my essays more effective and

concise. As I work to improve my writing skills, I aim to overcome the weaknesses I

currently possess as a writer.

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