Monday, November 17, 2008
Frustration
This past week I had the most frustrating session thus far. The appointment scheduled with me canceled. Then a woman called who couldn't find the BCC location so she wanted to know if she could walk in at Bessey. Since I didn't have an appointment I said I would take her, a half hour later she showed up. She came in with a rough draft, she wanted to see if her theme ran throughout the paper and if she was speaking to a general audience. I read her paper and pointed out parts that she repeated multiple times. Then I showed her parts of the paper where her meaning was unclear or where I was uncertain of who her audience was. Anytime I mentioned these points she refused to listen to what I was saying and told me I didn't understand the paper. I tried to reword what I was saying until eventually she heard just a little of what I was attempting to let her know. She then gave me a paper her teacher had corrected and asked me what I thought about it. I read through it, the paper was extremely personal so I asked her if the paper was supposed to be a personal narrative or if it was to be written to a general audience. She told me it was supposed be for a general audience, I pointed out to her that this paper was far to personal for a general audience. I also let her know that her thesis was not involved in any of her paragraphs. Once again she told me that I was wrong and that I just didn't understand her paper. I told her that if I as the audience understand the paper and her teacher didn't understand it either, then there was a problem with her paper. This went on and on all session and long. And when it came five I had to tell her that our session was out of time. I have never had a session where I didn't understand why the client had come. She was extremely unreceptive to anything I had to say and did not seem to take anything away from our session.
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