Today was my last class meeting with Shruthi!
We reviewed over her outline for the second essay. She has found five sources to use for her research topic, but her outline was very unfocused, jumping between topics and/or rambling. So I had her verbally describe to me what she had discovered in her research thus far, which came to be three main topics. We talked about how these three topics could each be a supporting detail that would support her overall thesis. We refined her thesis, formulating it in accordance with the three-story model. I reminded her of paragraph structure as we had done it in her first essay, and talked about how those same principles applied to this one. Shruthi seemed to be on board with all of this, and we determined a specific schedule of draft deadlines over Spring Break that would allow for multiple revisions.
Please give me an update on April 6th, letting me know exactly how many more assignments Shruthi owes you. Once you have received her portfolio and read it, send it to me with your comments on a cover page or in an email and I will review it and confer with you about her final grade for the course.