Final Writing Center Shadowing

At my final shadowing session at the Writing Center, a girl came in with her essay that related ageism in the book that was read in class with ageism in society today.  The essay was completed, but needed some final edits and clarification.  The writing fellow and I read the essay to ourselves, and she made notes in pencil as she read through.  Once we had completed reading, we went through areas where clarification of how her idea related to her thesis was needed.  In this situation, I would have read the paper aloud because it seemed as though the student was not involved for the first part of the consultation.  Also, the writing fellow missed typos such as "word" instead of "world" when she was reading to herself and she did not mark.  The student then asked if her thesis was clear enough because she knows that in the past her professor has strongly emphasized the thesis in her students' papers.  Together, we were able to create a thesis statement that best represented the argument of her paper.