Throughout high school, all every student wants to do is work in a group, that is until it's an essay; at least that's the case for me. Sure, I don't mind working alone, in fact I thoroughly enjoy it. It's just that working in a group on that boring worksheet your teacher gave you can make it so much more bearable.
However, a group essay is much different. Everyone has a distinct writing style that varies greatly from person to person; so how do you mesh all those styles together to make a cohesive essay? My groups has struggled with that the whole week, but I think we have it down now. In the beginning, we knew that each of us having our own paragraph to write was not going to bring us the results we wanted; so instead we started writing it all together. With our prewrite out, we went paragraph by paragraph, laying out the basics of what we wanted to say. It was difficult because we all had ideas about how we wanted to say things, but we compromised by someone just typing out a sentence and we would discuss it and make changes if necessary. Once our body paragraphs were "done", we went back and added details to make the essay more indepth. Next on our list to tackle is the introduction and conclusion. Our group decided to leave them for the end so we would have a better idea of what our essay would be about. Working in a group
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Andy Schoenborn
10/1/2016 12:57:55 pm
Hi Lauryn,
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