Workshop experience

In class we had to get in our groups and read our papers to each other. We then had to help each other with our mistakes. At first I was a little nervous to read my paper but after the first person in my group went I realized that others were in the same boat. Most of them only wrote a paragraph when it was supposed to be three or more, so we each had to help each other to expand and seperate our ideas. This would help us to create more detailed paragraphs. During the workshop we all came to realize that we were having the same problems in developing our essays. The thesis statement was the first one we helped eachother on. Then there was the issue of when to put a comma before but, because, and so. "I think" and "I believe" were also a common mistake in our papers. The whole process with students helping students was, for me, a great experience for the fact that we are all on the same level of understanding. We were each able to understand better this way because we knew how to explain it in a way we would understand. To me it's a lot easier for a person to point out the mistake of others than their own and in this way we were able to help correct eachothers mistakes. The hardest part of the essay for many of us was the fact that we had to create this whole scenario and come up with fake facts. I figured it would be easy being that I did this all the time when I was a kid to keep from getting in trouble with my parents. I should be a pro at this.