Shadowing experience 10/09/2010.

This update comes a bit late in the week as I plan to discuss my shadowing experience from last week. This session was very interesting as the only person that came in for a consultation had questions about a graduate school application. She wanted some advice from the consultant regarding the essay portion of the application, and my observations of their consultation was quite interesting. The consultant used the same process theory that one would use to write an English paper or a Poli Sci paper. It seemed that the tutee was quite nervous about applying and really wanted to make sure her essay was free of errors and logical inconsitencies. It seems very interesting to think about the job description of a writing consultant and then imagine helping a student on grad school essay. One might not traditionally think of this as the role of the consultant, but I feel it is important that we are prepared to edit any kind of writing.