Colleen TS 3 Soyoung

This evening Soyoung and I met on Skype.  We reviewed dictation work from last week and determined that I would prepare some exercises to help her with recall of dictation.  She is hoping to work at the airport, so being able to listen to customer questions and find solutions to help them will be important to her.  Next we began on a series of three writing lessons.  Today we worked on her understanding of 'Planning to Write', and on the rhetorical style 'Critique'.  We worked on the first part of planning which is 'idea generation'. She has chosen the topic of gun control, so we brainstormed ideas around gun control and she wrote them down. We worked on the critique elements of pros and cons by critiquing a clothing ad.  She listed off pros and cons of the ad, things that might convince her to buy the clothing.  For our next meeting she is searching out some references and resources around the gun control topic and generating a list of pros and cons of gun control. During our next meeting we will look at the second element of planning 'organizing'.