I don't want that to influence me one way or another until I write the final comment. Then I look back and see whose it is because I want to write a personal comment. I still don't try to figure out what specific changes are made between the draft and final paper. But I guess the theory is that every time you get students to rewrite there's going to be some improvement.
Most students get better at writing.
The writing helped me to learn the content because just sitting in class and discussing it is helpful, but when you actually write it down and understand it, that's really when you learn and remember it . . . The primary objective of the course is to learn how to read, talk about, and write on poetry. Students survey the history of English lyric poetry from the Middle English through modern periods and discuss in-depth the variety and range of the poetry. They decide on the content of their letters, though the discussion must be analytical and relevant to the assigned poems. Students write their letters on poems and readings assigned by the instructor.