1. My role in the group I was named leader of the group and played an active role in choosing and narrowing our research area. Since I work in a newsroom and our issue of gag laws in detention centers has been a very dominant topic for several weeks, I offered the group many articles and news sources that I published on our Facebook page. As group leader, I also organized the majority of meetings and assigned roles to people after discussing with the group what interested them most. I helped group members after they wrote their sections, offering suggestions and proofreading what they had. do. For future group work, it would be better to have more face-to-face contact and organization to bring out our ideas. 2. The way my group worked My group worked very well. We were organized and maintained constant communication to see how we were all traveling with our work. At our first meeting, we all decided what we wanted to do, based on what we were most interested in, because that seemed like the fairest way to divide up the tasks. We stayed in touch through a Facebook page and also created a Google Doc so we could all easily edit our work. Everyone in the group was very open to suggestions and took advice into account. The work was very shared. I really enjoyed the author's thoughts on why average people think free speech is important. She says: “It's a bit like asking people if they think democracy is a good thing: it's hard for anyone to say no. Freedom of expression is like that; there is broad, widespread consensus on its existence and importance.” She also described the "legal culture" surrounding freedom of expression, which really enhanced my understanding of how this right is applied and its limits domestically and internationally, giving me the knowledge I needed to do the job.