On Composition

The peer review group influenced our papers tremendously. It helped each peer review member improve their paper by providing each member with little tidbits of information that helped with the overall structure of the paper. It allowed for the papers to become easier to read in certain spots and it helped the flow of the paper become better. We thought that eliminating "be" verbs and most prepositional phrases was tough but on the contrary, it helped the readability of our papers. Because we had to get rid of these items, Mason took out information that did not make since. When he had a lot of be verbs and prep. phrases, the sentences seemed to bond to each other but when they were eliminated, it became just information that was irrelevant. When we were studying Erin's and Peyton's paper, we realized something was wrong in the first paragraph. We decided that those paragraphs lacked information so we had to come up with things to help get the point across early in the paper. Tyler's paper was somewhat the same as most of these papers but he had a body paragraph that needed some work after eliminating "be" verbs.