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Literacy Improvement Plan

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My plan for academic literacy improvement has progressed nicely this study period. Although, I understand this will be a long process - as mentioned in Grellier and Goerke (2014), the best way to develop your reading and writing skills is to do hours of exercise - each minuet step I take to improve will be beneficial. Even with my hectic life schedule, I have managed to implement all the strategies mentioned in Assessment one.

The first step I needed to take was to advance my vocabulary. Vocabulary builder has been a website I visit every day. Acquiring five new words a day was proving difficult – one or two days after learning a new word I was forgetting its definition. This lead to me revising my plan; instead of learning five new words,

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