1. My role in the group I was appointed group leader 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 dominant topic for several weeks, I have offered the group many news articles and sources to read that I have posted on our Facebook page. Being the leader of the group, I also organized most of the meetings and assigned roles to people after discussing with the group what they were most interested in. I assisted group members after they had written their sections, offering suggestions and proofreading what they had done. For future group work, it would be better to have more face-to-face contact and organization to fine-tune 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. In our first meeting we all decided what we wanted to do, based on what interested us most, since it seemed to be the fairest way to divide the tasks. We maintained contact via a Facebook page and also created a Google Doc so we could all easily edit each other's work. Everyone in the group was very open to suggestions and took advice. The work was shared a lot. I really enjoyed the author's thoughts on why average people think free speech is important. He says: “It's a bit like asking people if they think democracy is a good thing: hardly anyone would say no. Free speech is like that; there is a broad and generalized consensus on its existence and its importance." He also described the "legal culture" surrounding free speech, which really improved my understanding of how the law is applied and its limits nationally and internationally, giving me the knowledge I needed to do the