Haley, 5/10/13: Haley turned in the final draft of her third paper for this week’s meeting. She had changed it drastically to improve her structure and flow and, in doing so, had added many repetitive or awkward sentences. She stated … Continue reading
On Monday, Qi and I reviewed her final research paper draft. It had very few errors overall. We reviewed comma usage to offset additional information because she was inconsistent with her punctuation (and I wanted to spend some time on … Continue reading
Today Chimuanya and I worked on the thought letter and three essays that she will submit for her final portfolio. I had highlighted sentences that contained confusing phrasing. I could tell the wording was poorly phrased because Chimuanya had not … Continue reading
This week Sophie turned in a complete first draft of her research essay, while Cheryl turned in an annotated bibliography. These were our last meetings! I was impressed by Sophie’s draft. She has done a lot of research, and did … Continue reading
Chimuanya and I met twice this week–once during our regular time, and a second additional time to make up for the class we had missed on Marathon Monday. For our first session, we edited and revised her last essay, a … Continue reading
Maud, 5/4/13: Maud wrote the first draft of her third paper for this week’s meeting. She had changed her thesis slightly after realizing that she did not have enough evidence to support the original thesis. The new thesis was well … Continue reading
A note on final assignments – I adapted the “Writer’s Manual” Assignment for both Ashley and Qi. I eliminated the sections on personal voice (I haven’t talked about this much with either student), commas and punctuation (these are not major … Continue reading