Mentoring continued

Student mentoring was a mixture of finding the students strengths, working on areas of improvement, and encouraging him to find his own writing style. We worked on sentence and paragraph transitions, some sentence structure, perspective, and for the purpose of the scene summaries, only including key information and summary structure.

Here are some samples of the writing and editing we did. 

Some Resources we used were:

How to Write a Summary

With thanks to: Swales, John M. and Christine B. Feat. Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 

 Essential Tasks and Skills. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 1994. 105-130.

Preparing to Write: To write a good summary it is important to thoroughly understand the material you are working with. Here are some preliminary steps in writing a summary. 

1. Skim the text, noting in your mind the subheadings. If there are no subheadings, try to divide the text into sections. Consider why you have been assigned the text. Try to determine what type of text you are dealing with. This can help you identify important information. 

2. Read the text, highlighting important information and taking notes. 

3. In your own words, write down the main points of each section. 

 4. Write down the key support points for the main topic, but do not include minor detail. 

5. Go through the process again, making changes as appropriate. 

As well as lists of transition words taken from: English Language Smart words- Transition Words http://www.smart-words.org/linking-words/transition-words.html