On the Monday before Thanksgiving, Delanie and I had a meeting that wasn’t originally scheduled, to catch up from her decision to change final paper topics. She wrote a thought letter about women in Norman Rockwell paintings and brought the … Continue reading
This week was a bit of a setback for both of my students. Delanie turned in a thought letter on Saturday for the paper she’d been planning since the beginning of the semester, about Orange is the New Black and … Continue reading
At the start of class with Delanie, we went over the final Writer’s Manual assignment and my midterm report. I answered a few questions about the final and she said she agreed with my midterm summary and didn’t have any … Continue reading
Delanie turned in the second draft of her second paper this week. Many of her sentence-level issues, including some we had specifically pulled out to work on last week, remained and she hadn’t carefully proofread the sections of analysis she … Continue reading
Delanie turned in the first draft of her second paper this week. She had better topic and concluding sentences than in her last first draft, and she had a strong conclusion, but could use more specific analysis in each paragraph. … Continue reading
In class on Monday, Delanie and I discussed the final draft of her first paper and her thought letter for her next paper, on the documentary Dark Days. For her final draft, I said that her role as the author/interpreter … Continue reading
Delanie and I didn’t meet this week because of Fall Break, but she sent me the final draft of her paper and I returned it with feedback. Most of my comments this time around urged her to use more specific … Continue reading
On Tuesday, Delanie and I went over her second draft of her first paper. She filled many gaps in the first draft by making many more explicit connections for the reader and improving her topic and concluding sentences. We went … Continue reading
I had Delanie write a reverse outline for her first draft of her paper on the documentary Home. She wrote the topic of each paragraph, and a sentence explaining its relationship to her thesis. This revealed a disconnect between the … Continue reading
In class on Monday, I pulled some sentences out of Delanie’s thought letter to work on clarity (eliminating some prepositional phrases and using specific language) and writing with an active voice. We also began making an outline for her first … Continue reading