As students try to adapt to these and other changes, they frequently are lured away from the basics. They focus on the Stylebook and deadlines, paying less and less attention to grammar, punctuation, style and spelling. Many have never learned the basics in the first place. At the beginning of each semester, students place themselves in groups of four. Groups must have one of each.
Students then give the professor a list of group members with master appointments.
Each master is responsible for editing the work of other group members in their master area for at least three weeks. Then they rotate. For example, if Shelly is her group's master of spelling, she is charged with making sure that all words on all of her group members' papers are spelled correctly. If Johnny is the master of style, he must make sure that all of his group members have written their assignments according to the rules of AP style. The process normally takes about 15 minutes.