SEPT. 21 class reflection

Today In class we brought our rough draft for our first paper due on Friday. We first started out getting into our groups so we could help each other with any difficulties we where having with it. Thankfully all of my team members had there rough drafts and where prepared and ready for suggestions and comments. We where to read the assignment out loud in front of our group members and then go back and fix any of the problems that we would come across. My group had allot to say about each email that was read, which is a good thing because i feel that a paper can always be improved and hearing other views and comments are always a good thing. When i read my paper in front of my group, they quickly suggested comments about how i have stirred off from the rules regarding this paper. Some of the rules that i was not following would be using the word you or your. me and my group broke down every sentence and corrected all the yous and yours that where in my email. We also corrected the other rule that i was braking allot with contractions. We again, broke down each sentence and fixed all the contractions that it contained. We did this exercise for all of our papers and found that it was well worth it. This style of correcting our papers was extremely different from the way we did in high school, which would be give your paper to one or two more people and have them make changes. To me this is a way better exercise and i also find it more helpful. The reason being is mainly because when you read your paper out loud you will find that some sentences don't make sense or do not flow as well as something else would. I think that this exercise that was done in class was more than helpful and has already effected my paper in a positive way.