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My heart skipped a beat when I found out my second course would be University Writing. I knew my horrible writing skills would be exposed. I prepared my self for the worst,but surprisingly this course took learning how to write back to the basics, which I needed. First, I had a desperate need for help with punctuation. This course gave a detailed lesson on how to use correct punctuation. Second, I thought I knew all that I needed to know about capitalization. After taking this class what I thought I knew about punctuation was just the beginning steps to using capitalization correctly. Also, I needed to have an instructor coach me through my mistakes. Durning this course I have learned that even though we are online students, our instructor
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