Kailin and I had a very productive class session today. We finished up Essay 2, fine-tuning verbs from passive voice/past tense to active voice/present tense, and making all the phrases as clear as possible–paying special attention to the concluding sentences of each paragraph.
We then discussed Kailin’s final assignment, a writer’s manual. We talked about how she would approach it: by reviewing over her first drafts, and comparing them to the final essays she produced.
Lastly, we looked over the Annotated Bibliography Kailin had put together and talked about how she was going to structure the essay. We discussed the merits of taking a chronological approach, versus each paragraph directly comparing the past and present conditions. Kailin opted for the latter, as we think it will make for a stronger essay. We then put together an outline to provide her with a “road map” of her ideas when she goes to write the essay. She is submitting a draft of it to me later this week.