What Consultants Will and Won't Do
Consultants WillConsultants Won't
- read your paper or ask you to read it aloud
- listen carefully and perhaps make notes
- show you effective and less effective parts of your paper
- ask you questions to help you identify a claim or develop your points
- mark passages that seem wordy or unclear
- demonstrate ways of revising a sentence
- point out errors and explain why they are wrong
- ask you to locate errors of a similar type
- identify patterns of errors in your writing
- help you develop strategies to revise papers on your own
- write your paper for you
- revise your paper for you
- ridicule your writing
- guarantee a grade for the revision
- "fix" your paper without your being present
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