final blog

I feel like my writing has improved significantly since the beginning of the semester. I hav been getting graded harder on my papers, but getting the grades I want, most the time.  I really think that my being able to enter an academic discussion has improved, and writing a thesis statement.  I feel like when we group peer review it helps me more, but it doesn't seem to work for a lot of people. It worked better for me last semester because we had more time , and everyone had time to go.  I love the class discussions, and they were always key in helping me out.  I thought the second paper we did was the easiest because we had leeway in which story we wanted to choose.  I picked the Cuba story, and I feel like I liked that story, so it was easy for me to write about it.  I think the most beneficial lessons were anytime when we got into a class discussion because I seemed to take the most from talking about things.  I definitely feel more prepared to write college-level papers, and I am way more confident than I was last semester.