This afternoon I had my final solo consultation. I led a 30-minute session in the library from 3:30 to 4:00. My client was an international graduate student working on a draft of her dissertation proposal. Although she was not the first international student that I have worked with she was the first client that I have led who primarily wanted to focus on grammar within her 10 page proposal. A task not possible to accomplish within 30-minutes.
She did not want to focus on any other aspects of her paper besides grammar, so allowed the session to focus primarily on this. Although, I did my best to be sure that any grammar that I attempted to change. I did my best to explain the grammar so that she might learn and benefit more than the accuracy of this paper. Generally speaking her issues with grammar had to do with subject verb agreement, and unclear or run-on sentences. We read through the first page and I did my best to correct everything that I noticed with her grammar. After the first page (only three paragraphs) I explained to her the trends that I noticed and suggested that if she read her paper with these aspects in mind perhaps she could correct some of them herself. She seemed skeptical.
Overall, I enjoyed working at the library satellite and enjoyed feeling the bustle and excitement of the end of the semester. However, more than anything I enjoyed feeling like I was helping people with their end-of-semester writing!
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