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Hrm 531 Week 2 Individual Assignment

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For the summer of 2015, I enrolled as a student in University of Maryland University College (UMUC) to start the journey of earning a bachelor's degree in Cyber Security. For the starting course requirements, Writing 101s was one of the three classes I had picked to begin with. When I first started off in this course, I considered my writing skills poor, with unorganized paragraphing and horrible grammar skills. Now, I am able to write great with more organized essays, proper sentence structures, and also gained researching skills for future research projects or assignments. This course has dramatically increased my confidence in writing and I feel that I am able to write at college level and not middle or high school.

First, to work on my paragraph organization skills, I started off using two methods, which was brainstorming and webbing. Later on, I found that free-writing along the way also helped me brainstorm ideas to put into my writing. These strategies were from Writing for Success in Chapter 1. It helped me learn to keep my paragraphs in correct sequence and not scrambled in the essays. Which before, it caused …show more content…

Looking for resources for essays and assignments taught me the necessary skills to find scholarly journals and articles to use as references. Using the UMUC library taught me how to use the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to find precise information on what my topic was about. In the beginning, I did not know how to research effectively in the library. There were different databases that provided me with the information I needed for research papers, using the advanced search options. The library tutorial discussions in class were also a great help in teaching me with the starting steps. With the steps, it provided me with the knowledge of how to use a library to its full potential. I now have the proper skills and tools to research for future assignments in other courses or classes that I

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