In my third session with Rafael, we went over his fleshing
out of the outline. He had done a good
job, but had problems with transitions phrases, and subject-verb-object
agreement. Although a really wanted to,
I did not correct his phrases or agreements, but we went through the outline
sentence by sentence and I asked him to pick out the things that did not sound
quite right. He caught about 80%, and we
worked on correcting those. The ones
that he did not catch, I did not say anything of the first run through. We then went back through and read it
sentence by sentence aloud a second time.
He caught some of the problems, but I pointed out the rest and asked him
what might sound better. In most cases
he was able to make reasonable corrections.
In the ones that he could not, we talked about possible ideas and he
chose what he preferred and by the time we finished, his paper was well on the
way. We had to abandon our third session
because I had my culture class the next day and we agreed that he could do the
“final polish” on his own.
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