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I agree with the first part of what rachelr said about the class. I absolutely love the freedom we are given. In every other class I've taken I've felt like there was a wall built around us by the professor or the syllabus. It has been a great experience to have a syllabus that wasn't a set and a professor that let us explore as we wish.

In my opinion posting our papers online hasn't been a problem for me at all. Even receiving the comments at the end of the paper has been refreshing for me. While usually, I pause reading my paper to read some illegible comment in the margin, it has been nice to be able to read through my whole paper without pausing. I also like that I am not writing for a single person, but rather for whoever out there wanting to read it. I feel like if anything this is making me a better writer or at least one that focuses on a larger audience rather than one. 

In class we talked about self-editing because of the audience we are writing for. It seems to me, however, that the larger the audience the less self-editing that occurs. If I were only writing for one person, then I would focus my energies to please that person with my writing. When I don't know who the audience is maybe more of what I am is coming out...