Our Eighth Group Meeting

After the long break in time since our last group meeting, it was great to meet once again and revisit both the writing pieces we have been working on as well as the ideas about writing that we have been discussing together throughout the semester. After heading to our old meeting spot in the library, we first updated each other on our current projects and our plans for the surprisingly fast approaching last few weeks of school and the end of our time in Cultivating Your Voice II. Then, with the knowledge that we would have another meeting the following class to keep working on our pieces together and thus enough time, we proceeded to focus in on Aaron’s and my most recent writing pieces for this meeting.

Before reading together, we decided to employ a meeting design that we have enjoyed and greatly profited from in past meetings: having the author write specific and focused questions relating to their piece before anyone has begun to read and analyze what they can do better. While it was a difficult process to narrow down what I wanted to focus in on as well as figure out how to articulate my specific concerns, I think both Aaron and I benefited greatly from the writing of these questions as it forced us to realize where we felt weaknesses in our pieces. Not to mention the feedback received following the group reading was extremely useful and well directed as a result. Thus, this meeting served to help us jump right back into our group members’ work after the pause in meetings. I think we all look forward to delving into Matt’s and Nicole’s pieces next class!

Allison