Doing this group project with Harper's Monthly Magazine has been challenging but a good learning experience as well. Having the group work on together broke up the amount of work and allowed for us to critique each other in order to improve each individual's work. It has also been a good experience learning how to incorporate different writing styles and different subjects into one piece of work. The strict deadlines for each aspect of the project have been very helpful and beneficial in keeping the group on schedule, something that may be very difficult to do with out guidelines. I've also learned how to take something like this magazine that may not be particularly interesting or relevant to my life today and find bits and pieces to expand on in order to bring meaning and some excitement to what we are studying.

The challenge of working in a group is finding time outside of class to get together and work on our project. People's schedules clash, and you have to work around others, rather than just yourself. Working in groups also requires you to be much more open minded, and sometimes forces you to make decisions and changes in your writing that you may not have made on your own. Overall, I think the biggest challenge of this project is finding a way to create a sense of unity between the different pieces of work in order to create a final product that is logical and easily flows from one subject to another.