Allie Gregory Post #26

          I'm fairly confident that the most helpful thing, for me, that we've done this year was the book about writing that we read and worked with. All my English classes in the past have taught me grammar, but I've had very few lessons on style. It was interesting to see what he recommended as good writing. It was particularly interesting how different his recommendation was from how I've been taught to write. I tried to take it to heart.

          I also felt like I benefited from some (key word) of our peer critiques. There were multiple times this year that we would get to my essay and I wouldn't hear a single useful thing. People would say some nice things. Sometimes people would say it didn't quite make it. But there were multiple occasions that I never really got a clear why and therefore wasn't able to fix anything. That being said, I also tried to incorporate some of the more useful feedback I got into my essays and felt better for it. I consider some of it very helpful to my writing and I definitely appreciate having done those. 

          I don't know that my writing has improved dramatically over the course of this year, but I do feel like I've gotten the chance to try some new things with it and I've liked that. I think it's been good for my writing even if maybe I've far from perfected it. Basically, and I'm sorry if this isn't all that helpful, I approve of what the class is doing. Thanks, Mr. Logsdon.