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Raffoul Residence, Street number 17, Miziara, Lebanon Sunday December 3 rd , 2017 Dr. Zane Sinno Department of English American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon Dear Dr. Sinno, Last day of classes has arrived and the semester has officially come to an end. As I’m about to embark on a new journey of Academic English next semester, I feel the need to share my thoughts on my work during these past four months. If I were to think of qualificators to describe this period, I would say: rich and enriching. In fact, assembling the manifold papers for my portfolio made me rethink of all the work that I did, all the writings I presented, whether it’s essay responses, in class writings or online collaborative writing activities. The highlight of this semester was (obviously) the 10-page problem-solution report which we had to write in groups of two, stopping at many stages to submit a draft which was peer-reviewed and assessed for further processing. This ...