Writing Center Shadow 5

It seems as though I tend to delay blogging about my Writing Center shadowing sessions until a week later, right before my next session.  Last week, the writing consultant and I discussed an essay with a student in a First Year Seminar class.  The assignment topic was to compare the ideas about racism between two black men.  The student was very confident about his work, which contained a great deal of well developed ideas.  However, some of his ideas did not flow together well and he was missing transitions at times.  In his conclusion, he discussed a point that would have added significance to one of the points he made earlier in the essay.  This student was very interested in why some suggestions made by the writing consultant would work better than what he had originally.  Also, he had his paper completed on the Monday evening, even though the paper was not due until Friday.  This allowed the writing consultant to offer assistance via email to him throughout the week if he wanted to revise sections that he noted had issues.  I thought this was a great way to create a bond with the student being consultant because it is a way to make the student feel confident about his or her writing because the consultant is looking forward to revisiting the piece.