Today's class was one filled with productivity. It started with a very simple yet effective checklist. mainly going over components of our senior essay. Mr. Rivers discussed how turnitin.com will be used (mainly just to check for plagiarism) and how the formatting of our essay should look. Weather it was MLA or APA Mr. Rivers gave valuable information on both. He also suggested the use of a website called Purdue owl to assist us if we were to need it. Considering this was suppose to be our last day to work on the essay Mr Rivers strongly suggested reading it out loud and revising anything necessary. Although right at the end of class Mr Rivers surprised what i believe to be all of us by saying he will not be grading our essays until 11:59 Monday February 19th. This not only shocked most of us but also came as a relief, giving the class much more to add any finishing touches necessary.
To me personally the idea of extending the deadline without letting us know was perfect. It showed people just how productive they can be even with some pressure. Overall today's work can be applied to just about any job out their today. Even with the deadline with some kind of assignment coming up soon weather that be a spreadsheet for your company or the game you've been preparing your team for you can still be very productive and only make improvements till the end. Especially within revisions, going back to review your essay is a great way to check for any errors you might have made. Same goes for work, you don't want to write down the wrong item for someones food, I would know from experience. So overall working on improvements till the end is almost always a good idea especially when you can revise to make those improvements.
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