It’s interesting for me to see my first ever draft, the next subdraft I made and didn’t share with the class, and then my final piece. I can definitely see my growth, even though my work is nowhere near perfect. I obviously wouldn’t have been able to get to my final piece if the workshops didn’t exist. When I first submitted my draft for workshop, I had never written a journalistic article before and I had no idea where to go next with my piece to improve it. I felt like I walked in with so much information that I was overwhelmed with where to go next. Thankfully, I think that is why workshops exist. I know that my final didn’t have enough voices towards the end, but I thought it was better to have two submitted than none at all like I originally did. Another reason why this piece is so intriguing to me was because this was NOT my original idea for an article. I had a completely different idea, but I wasn’t passionate enough to write it and I had no idea how to get to a final end goal with it. In that aspect, I can’t not be proud of myself. This class has taught me a lot about writing articles, but I don’t think anything can teach you more than actually having your piece workshopped. It has made me have more respect for my spot in the school newspaper and has also boosted my confidence for writing articles for the Bolt as well. Of course though, sometimes I wish more people would speak up during the workshop just because I felt like my article needed more work than what was only advised to me in class. However, I also think that’s how I was able to get to my final piece. Even though a lot of corrections weren’t made, after some of the advice I was able to nit pick my piece apart to a certain extent.