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Laying the Foundation for College-Level Study

The first college course I ever enrolled in was an English course.  I took it because it was a logical choice.  After all, every course in college requires some level of reading comprehension.  I thought that the course would be challenging because it was a college course, but I didn’t think that there would be areas of which I was unfamiliar.  I was wrong.

As my study guide and textbook arrived, I jumped right on in.  At once I was pushing through essays and reading assignments.  Writing has always come easy to me, so I thought I was made.  Then along came a citation issue.

The issue was that I didn’t know how to cite sources, effectively paraphrase, or even productively research.  I just never had to do this in high school.  It certainly didn’t help that I went to prison when I was a senior in high school.  Regardless, I didn’t graduate from high school and, thus, had obviously missed several of the important lessons.  Instead of graduating before I went to prison, I earned a GED in prison.*1

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