Unit 1 Essay Review

For our Unit 1 essay, I really appreciated the mandatory drafts. This week was so much less stressful when we only had pages due at a time. I was able to relax and thing about what I was going to say for that page, rather than cram all of my ideas into 3 pages all at once. I love having so much time and opportunities to edit my writing and have other people take a look at it too. So far, my essay is mediocre. It has great structure and direction but it really needs a lot of touch ups. I forgot a lot of very important features and also made a handful of mistakes that deemed inappropriate to some audiences. It really helped having my teacher and peers tell me what sounded wrong and right because I may have never noticed. If the mandatory drafts had not been set in stone, I would not have started my essay until last night. I used to only give myself 2-3 days to write an essay, which was not smart at all. The group workshops are a very helpful idea. Considering no one knows each other well because our school is so large, no one feels comfortable asking our classmates for help editing their paper. Forcing us to do this not only helps our papers get better but it makes the class fell more tight-knit and comfortable amongst each other. Now I also have made a few friends because of this. It will definitely be more difficult to time manage when we move on to harder and longer essays, but I know that if we continue the group workshops I should have no problem getting my work done and doing it well. Group workshops and mandatory drafts saved my English grade and my sleep cycle.