Hi friends!
Due to my excessive coffee consumption over the past couple hours, my excitement for the writing center is completely amplified, but I ensure you the excitement is not false. I'm super excited for next year!!! Back home I used to work at an Italian restaurant, and that job made me happy. I love having a job to escape from the rest of my moderately stressful life. I can already tell that working on the Writing Center is going to be the same kind of happy escape :)
Talking to people about their papers is really cool --especially when the subjects are this interesting! A book about how technology is going to destroy society? Heck yes. So cool. I hate technology. I have avoided a smart phone for the longest time. I'm only getting one this weekend because my phone broke, and an iPhone is equally as expensive as a non-smart phone.
I will be stealing Whitney's copy of Feed and reading that book this summer. Yay. John's paper was over all pretty well written and made me want to read the book. I was actually pretty nervous about how well written it was. I thought I wasn't going to have much to say (who am I kidding, I always have something to say), but I feel that by paraphrasing his argument as we went along, we were able to have a pretty solid conversation. I gave him the perspective of someone who hadn't read the book, which happened to be exactly what his paper needed to consider.
Throughout his paper, there were several instances where he would mention characters or events from the book that I was unable to fully grasp. These were easy fixes, but still extremely important. When he quoted the book, I was unable to understand the significance of the quote because I didn't understand exactly what was going on, or who the character speaking was.
There were also sentences that would be unclear to even those who have read the book. Every once in a while, we paused and examined sentences that were vague, had pronoun issues, or had lack of parallelism. I was able to voice what the sentence appeared to say, and John was able to correct the sentence in a way the conveyed what he was actually trying to say. It went well. He's a strong writer and immediately knew how to rephrase the sentence. I mean the kid took AP lit. I didn't even take AP lit at my high school.
Our final concerns were repetition and being concice. I was a little nervous because John's thesis appeared to set the body paragraph's up for 1) a paragraph on technology and being uniformed 2)a paragraph on technology on ignorance. But John actually had two paragraphs on ignorance. I thought this was going to feel kind of unbalanced, but it worked really well. His second paragraph on ignorance proved to be a natural extension of the first. I didn't see a ton of overlap, but we marked a couple things he said he was concerned about. At the end of the session, he seemed to have a clear direction.
I like using my blogs as a way to collect my own thoughts. This session reflection shouldn't be too bad, seeing as I just essentially reflected for 500 words or so. Awesome.
PS: "Our final concerns were repetition and being concise." -----> is there a noun that basically means "the act of being concise"? Concision? Oh I googled. Concision it is!
Pretend it says: "Our final concerns were repetition and concision". Sounds better.
Kay bye friends.
Have a lovely day.
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