I've always believed that... When I was a child, used to think that... Although I should know better by now, I cannot help thinking that... Making what "they say" something you say, where Graff and Birkenstein (2010) describe a variety of ways to help strengthen undergraduate L2 students' academic writing skills and linguistic competence. From top to bottom, the authors help strengthen undergraduate L2 students' academic writing skills and linguistic competence, providing deep guidance on the what, how and why to write in a certain way if the purpose of your writing is to inform, persuade or create a literary work.

For instance, the chapter called The Art of Quoting was an interesting way of acknowledging that quoting is not simply enclosing what someone else has said in quotation marks. The point is that quoting what "they say" must always be connected with what you say. Finding relevant quotations is an art. What seems relevant at the beginning of your argument, might not be that important as your text changes in the process of revision.

Professional Participation also gave me the opportunity to understand the benefits of taking part in a poster session. It is a way to keep updated with achievements of limited interest and which are not suitable for the formalities of a conference to communicate their message in an informal manner.

In my opinion, a poster session is like wine tasting because by visualizing presentations you can have a sip of the different innovations and probably fall in love with a technique you can adapt in your class to give students tools that will make them productive in their future careers.  If there were not professional participation events like this, researchers would not be able to share their findings.

The idea of contributing to teaching and learning helps the educational community to make improvements and enrich the teaching-learning process.