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Introduction

The following pages contain a summary of the topics that were developed in the
course Composition II, at ULACIT by the teacher Gina Gatgens. The course in

general was very helpful, in my case is my first quarter at ULACIT, I did the
placement test; as a result, I started with Composition II instead of Composition I,

the entire quarter I felt a little bit behind, because I was missing some basic topics

that they were thought in Composition I; for example, I didn’t know what was an
outline, my idea of an outline was just to write the ideas with no kind of order, I did

the essay without a proper outline, but I did some research about it, for the other
assignments (Term paper & Research paper).

Punctuation rules seem easy, but they are not, there is a lot to know and reviewing

all the rules was very enriching, punctuation should be consider as general culture,
and definitely something very useful for the entire career and life. Another

important topic that we learned is the types of sentences, in my case I tend to think

in Spanish when I am writing and the structure is not the same so studying this
topic help me a lot; in fact, I have a better understanding of the structure of

sentences, thanks to this topic and the different types of clauses.

Composition courses in general help develops analytical thinking to students
tempting to think beyond the obvious and use critical ideas to explore other

possibilities, which we learned and put in practice, with the essay, term paper and
research paper, analyzing the different types, taking serious consideration in

plagiarism policies, we reviewed importance of the bibliographic references and

totally new to me the annotated bibliography.

In conclusion, personally I really enjoyed the course, and doing this journal, I am

sure it will be very helpful for other courses; because having grouped this important
information, it will be easy to consult when necessary.