What are these?
We added a field for notes to students. Faculty do not get these unless a student chooses to share them. Slate will, in time, have a function where a student or Consultant can click on past appointments and view notes. Consultants will be able to view notes for anyone who has come into the WLC.
That powerful function will let you see, before a meeting, the areas where students have asked for help and where Consultants have said they still need more assistance.
So what goes in these notes?
Keep them short. Remember that the purpose of these new notes will be to give the student a sense of what you worked on, what next steps might be, and what materials you provided. Then the students can go back and review their notes to get a sense of what happened during their meetings. We want to add an ability for YOU to review these notes later yourself, so you can prepare when you know a writer is coming in to see you again.
Here's an example of what notes might look like, taking no more than 5-10 minutes to compose a recap paragraph. Note that the recipient is John, who came in for the tutorial. Note also the "you" language: John is your reader. Do you think that John feel welcomed back to see us again? Will he trust our expertise?
We worked on your incorporation of sources and connecting ideas within paragraphs for your paper about Operation Paperclip after World War II, specifically the German scientists hired by the US military. You asked for information on Chicago footnotes, so we looked over Purdue OWL's page on Chicago Format https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html and I also provided you a copy of the Writer Web page on Transitional Phrases https://sites.google.com/view/writerswebhandbook/focusing-connecting-ideas/using-transitions . I advised more work with connecting ideas by "looking over the shoulder" to remind readers of claims made in earlier parts of the paper.
I hope we can work on that issue more in our next meetings, since some paragraphs read like mini-essays that did not acknowledge areas covered already in the paper.
Here's one to revise to make it useful to the student: (one will be too negative, the other written to the Prof)