Today Kailin and I reviewed over the list of potential sources she had submitted this week for Essay 3. I was slightly disconcerted because the sources were web pages found through Google, not academic articles found through Wellesley SuperSearch. So I showed Kailin how to do research through the LTS website, and we found some more potential sources that she might use in her essay. Kailin caught on quickly and I think now she’ll be comfortable using it.
We also continued work on Essay 2 by making the wording of her phrases as specific as possible. And now that her ideas are more fully fleshed out, we worked on the order in which they unfold. Twice this meant bringing her concluding ideas into the introductory sentences, to strengthen the argument and make each paragraph feel more focused.