Maricruz 9/27/13

Today I met with Maricruz to go over her intro paragraph and outline. I was very impressed by what she had written, and it seems as if she has a well thought out plan for the rest of the paper. While I read over her draft, I had her write a practice thesis statement based on  a more basic/undeveloped topic statement. She had a lot of trouble with this during our first meeting, but this time, she seemed to do much better with the task. I think she benefitted strongly from a resource I sent her that details different types of thesis statements and how to construct them. She was able to explain why her thesis was good and why she chose to write it the way she did. We then went over her draft and she spent the rest of the meeting working on it, which I think was very helpful for her. She began to organize her thoughts, finalized her thesis statement for the paper, and started to expand her outline. I am looking forward to her first best effort next week.