Chloe TS #6 (adult)

For our sixth session, Haiqiong and I worked on a paper she wrote about the traditional Chinese instrument the qin, its historical development, and its relationship to Chinese culture and philosophy. It was an 11-page paper so it took me quite a while to get through! I understand now what we learned about writing classes- it’s so much work to grade papers! And it requires a high level of concentration and attention to detail if you want to give good, constructive feedback, especially at Haiqiong’s level (she’s a PhD candidate so I nitpick at everything). She made improvement on her use of “the” and “a”, which I was happy about. Many of her mistakes were related to verb conjugation or preposition choice (or lack of preposition/lack of article- for example “in 1950s” rather than “in the 1950s”). I think the edits we made really improved her paper, and she is so thankful for my help. I know her writing will only get better with time.