Personal Reflection

According to Copland (2014) academic writing fosters the students’ ability to express themselves by understanding of the language used and the ability to communicate. I for one am not a good expressive writer and was told to practice more to develop the skill. During my high school years my love was always for mathematics, solving mathematical problems was always some form of enjoyment for me. However, I often questioned that love because all my subject choices like history, was reading related. One of my biggest fears came at the university level which was a foundation course that was mandatory call Foundation1019: Critical, Reading and Writing in the disciplines. When I enquired about it the first reaction was that it was the hardest course at the university and I have to past it in order to get my degree after the three years. I then heard that extensive reading and practicing was the most advisable thing to do to past the course Foun 1019. I knew that a university student read for his or her degree and I figured that was the reason why we were allowed to choose a major, but this course was outside of my faculty and from a field of study I hated which was Linguistics. I began to gather my own taught about the course even before my own experience and my hatred grew more. None the less, my feelings began to change after my second class because I began to realize that the course foun 1019 could be a significant help in my other courses. The course content comprised of