One of the latter seminars with James was looking back at the feedback we'd received from the submission of the first draft of our essay, I'd received a 54/100, which although I'd aimed for much higher, I was quite happy with because after looking over the feedback given by a teacher it made a lot more sense why my grade wasn't as high as I'd intended it to be; I'd started the essay with a completely different intention to sort of what it came out as, so ended up re-writing the introduction to make it suit the essay more.
Thanks to the feedback, I was able to make a lot more sense of the essay - as I've previously said, I struggle to make sense and form sentences properly, this is something that when vocally speaking I also don't do very well, so to have two submissions was extremely helpful to me. I was able to take the grammatical errors in the first submission and flip them, and confidentially get together the correct topic throughout the entire essay. It was nice to have another pair of eyes looking at my work as I'd clearly missed quite a big chunk of errors that were around the piece; I'd made many grammatical errors and wording corrections that needed changing because it didn't make a lot of sense.
James sessions allowed me to view my feedback and discuss it with my peers, particularly it was useful for when we were all struggling to meet the same deadlines - my peers reassured me that I'd done enough and was on track, which allowed me to worry less and concentrate on my other ongoing projects at the time. I found that although I didn't bring my essays in to view for feedback, I could still gain a lot of feedback via the first submission so it made me feel a lot better, instead of doing just one finalised submission, I was able to go back and make the changes that were needed to potentially push the grade of my essay up from a 54.
