Today I met with Woon Jee at Panera to discuss her paper that was due for her prelims this Thursday. During our first meeting, I really wanted to get a good understanding of the issues she struggles with concerning her writing skills. After briefly reading through her work, I got the impression that she has a good grasp on essay and paragraph construction and that she needed a little work on editing and word usage. Most of the grammatical areas that she struggled with were articles missing, subject-verb agreement, wrong word usage, and awkward phrases.
Instead of handing her a paper that already has all of the corrections, I thought it might be a good idea to see if she would be able to work through her paper and catch any corrections herself. One of the ways I edit my papers is by reading it aloud. I suggested this to her and for the most part it seemed to work. She quickly picked up on some of the issues she was having, and by the end of our meeting she was editing them out without any prompts from me. We had only made it about half-way through her paper and we were already two and a half hours in, but she felt confident that she could handle the rest of the paper on her own. We decided to meet tomorrow (Monday) to go over the paper once more before she turns it in.
I would be interested to hear her impressions of the game. In these scenarios, ask your CPs about similar events in their home countries.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of having her read her paper outloud. I've noticed I pick up on erros that way, as well.
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