first shadow session

Yesterday was my first experience shadowing at the Writing Center. I met the writing fellow with whom I will be working. He was very nice and talked to me a bit about the process. The student, however, failed to make her appointment, so he explained to me about what goes into a meeting. He explained that when the students fail to send him a copy of their papers beforehand, as this one had done, they are losing out because helping that student becomes more difficult. The girl had made the appointment fairly recently but maybe she forgot or forgot to cancel. Another lesson was going on in the same room, however, that I overheard. A student brought in a Core paper about Chickamatsu and was getting help. They read the paper aloud and sorted through organizational issues he had. I was disappointed to have an unsuccessful first meeting, but Shane assured me more students make their appointments than miss them. Hopefully next week we'll have a successful session.