Reflective Essay

My Experience in the Academic Reading & Writing course

My name is Ali and I'm student in Abu Dhabi Men's Colleges. I studying chemical engineering and I study in this semester Academic Reading & Writing course which I'm going to talk about it and what did I benefit from this course.

In the first, I had problems with vocabularies. When I want to summarize, I found the essay is difficult because it had many new vocabularies for me. After doing some summaries, I found some vocabularies repeated so it was easier to make the summary. Also I learnt from this course how I make reference for the summary. In higher school, I learnt how to make reference for my research: and it was different because I was searching about the information for the reference but now in the college I only copy the URL for the website's essay and put it in bibme.com to get the reference and write name of the author and the date. Really, it is better to use bibme.com website than the old way and it was very useful for us to know various ways to make a reference.

I enjoyed so much in this course and I hope to do more summaries to be better and better.

Summary 1 Final

Preserving Emirati Traditions

The falconry, Arabian Saluki hunting, hares, camel, dhow and saluki racing are from traditional Emirati sports and we need to keep these traditions. To keeping the traditions, we need to show our culture in everywhere so everybody knows our culture. Especially the youth are not interest in the traditions and the problem is in the curriculum. Some of the young people are taught from their parents and some of them like to learn and teach others. The people who are interested in culture think they need to promote the awareness about the traditional way of life to prove the UAE identity. Some of traditions still even now like using the falcon and saluki to hunt but there are missed traditions like using the horse and camel to transport. Abu Dhabi will still focuse on heritage and culture in the future.

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References

Mouslsy, R. (2010, March 28.). Keeping traditions alive. gulfnews.com. Retrieved March 28, 2010, from gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/education/keeping-traditions-alive-1.603773

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Summary 2 Final

Houbara bustards

The people enjoy caring Houbara chicks in Atlas Mountains of Moroco. The North African Houbara bustards are endangered and in Morocco there is plan to prevent them from becoming extinct. The center in Morocco wants to increase the number of saving birds during eight months (August – March). Enjil Station does the inseminations in the Females and the eggs are carried to incubation facility. The birds aren’t released in hunting season and people save 65 per cent of birds in some places. The success of the program is based on the Houbara bustards’ density in the wild and monitoring the number of nests and these numbers are up.

The author explains that “the birds are endangered North African Houbara bustards, their ongoing care pert of carefully thought-out plan to help prevent them from becoming extinct.”(Todorova, V. 2011)

Source Citation:

Todorova, V. (2011, May 27). UAE-funded centre revives endangered bird population - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/uae-funded-centre-revives-endangered-bird-population

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