Project 1 Conference Reflection

Today I met with Mat at The Sweet Shop for my conference on Project 1. During this meeting I read my piece aloud to him. I was very nervous to do this given that I had only even read it in my head while sitting in my dorm room. Reading the words aloud really helped me to pick up on problems that I had noticed before. This is definitely a trick that I am going to utilize before summiting any papers in the future. Additionally, Mat gave me confidence in my strange writing style/genres that I was unsure of using in this project. I am now more clear on how to complete this assignment by focusing my writing on myself and my experiences. I am going to do this by removing the how-to list I had in my piece and replace it with a paragraph that describes my average day when I have puppies. He also gave me more ideas of how I can approach the future projects by continuing what I have already done with Project 1. I am now going to focus Project 2 on the fostering system, as well, with emphasis on the process and how it can affect people to have animals in their lives.