Again, I remember talking about this in class… so I’ll try to keep this blog short and just review. This was an appointment I had with a student who was born, raised and schooled in America. The student was at the library on Sunday night to get help with his WRA class. Before our session began, he showed me his first paper from the class and wanted to discuss the comments his professor made. I really liked his idea and read over his first paper. I saw the student was really skilled with researching and paraphrasing his research. These qualities helped him achieve a 3.75 on the paper and the client wanted to know what to improve on to get a 4 point.
I saw that the student’s paper lacked his own ideas or analysis about his research. We discussed how he should aim towards adding more thought into his second paper. He questioned how his professor would be able to analyze his English if the student had less research and more thought. I told the client that as he presented his thought, or what Murray calls – voice, in the paper… the WRA professor will see the English used in the process. That is, if the student used grammar, voice, word choice, etc correctly.
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