Consultant Shadowing #2

On this particular observation my consultant worked on paper for a psychology class in which they watched a movie gave a short summary and talked about a character that suffered from some type of aliment and talked about it using class notes and the book.

The client had started the introduction and the summary and was not worried about anything else. So the first thing we did was read the paper out-loud. The paper was very rough but the consultant was able to catch most of the errors that were there by hearing it for himself. The main problem with his summary was that instead of summarize the parts of the movie that were important to his paper he talked about every scene in the entire movie. The consultant asked some leading questions so he could avoid summarizing the whole movie.

After working on the summarization the consultant then moved towards the introduction slash thesis. And this is also where the consultant took over the session in my opinion. They still asked questions, but they wrote out the entire thesis. I thought it could have been helpful to have them work towards answering the questions themselves and have him write out the thesis and then perhaps work on an outline of the paper so he could see how the thesis relates to the rest of the paper.

At the end of the sessions he felt pretty happy and had some direction but I still think that he could have learned a little more by doing more of the work.