Each member of your group will write about their worst grammar issue. That is, just one. Feel free to write about others, that is, after you have focused your attention on your worst one, researched it, and written a process paper describing to someone else how to recognize and fix your problem. This gets folks focusing on one issue, learning how to research it, learning the issue well enough to fix it in their own writing and conquering it well enough to teach others how, and then they are ready to move on to their next worst issue, etc.
This is all part of the Kaizen method. You focus on one, high impact issue. You figure out and implement a solution. You make sure your solution works, and then you move on to the next problem. By focusing on one issue, you can bring all your energy and attention to bare on it, and each change you make allows you to make further improvements over time. Over time, the same changes accumulate to have great impact on how effectively your work and how good your resulting products can be.
The underlying assumption here is based on good research on how people incorporate change into their lives. Namely, people can make small changes and maintain these changes in their lives. When folks try to take on too much change all at once--a crash diet or going to the gym for an hour a day, for instance--they will have initial success, but they will not be able to maintain this success over the long haul. The habit they are trying to develop lapses, and they are back where they started. I'm trying to get folks to adopt habits for change which they can sustain.
Fix one small problem. Make the fix a habit. Figure out the next small problem to tackle, and move one. Gain reinforcement by watching the small changes accumulate. [By the way, this same approach works for getting yourself out of debt, loosing weight, learning to exercise, cleaning house, declutteriing, etc. et ect.]
Steve
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