Tuesday May 16th
We met as we had arranged at the Starbucks near CIES at 630-730. We spoke for a little while about how our days and classes were going. Mubarak asked for help on the same essay from the last time we had met. I helped him try to organize his paper more logically and write some of his topic sentences for each paragraph. We also talked about methods to keep the paper on topic and things that would facilitate him finding new support information. When he got tired of this we went over some vocabulary words he had collected he wanted clarification on. For these words he knew the definitions for the most part but had issues using them productively. So I helped by providing sample sentences and a more detailed cultural explanation for the definition and use of some of these words. He is trying to improve his vocabulary usage to avoid repeating himself so in defining some of these words for him I was able to clarify for him what will work and what wont work in his essay.
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