feedback and ch-ch-changes

    The workshop we did for Thursday's class was mostly helpful for my own essay by way of reading others. I get a lot of my inspiration for writing from others and editing goes about the same way. I see patterns in grammatical styles and sentence structures and it makes me want to write that way. My mom was a high school English teacher before I was born, and she teaches elementary school now - and I didn't really realize how much that affected my writing style and editing habits until college. I am far from being a great writer with handbook-verified grammatical skills, but I think genetics definitely help. There was only one workshop edit on my document with a few comments about how I described the trail in context and furthering my argument about why I use it. I expanded a little bit on why I think other people use y favorite trail and I intend to proofread several more times with a fine-toothed comb. Maybe I'll throw in some more of mom's favorite editing tools for the next round of workshopping: