Writing 10

I had another really productive session yesterday at the writing center. Our tutee wanted some advice on starting off and then structuring her essay on 'maternal identity' based on two books she read in her class. Assignment was an open topic where students were required to select a theme and then form an argumentative thesis. She did have a thesis to start with but she didn't know where to take it from after that. We helped her brainstorm a lot of ideas and she started pulling quotes out of the book that she had read. She also worked her way to connect the ideas we gave her that supported the topic. By the end of it, we had a five paragraph body topics ready. We gave her a few tips on how she could go in a lot of details since the cap on the limit is 10 pages. She scheduled another appointment sometime later this week for proofreading on her way out.