MCTC Writing Center Training Video Step 2

Cool. What are your chief concerns with this? What do you feel like you're really trying to address? Well, I just... it's too short. It's too short. Okay. Umm one of the things is we are focussed on length like, you want this to be long enough. You want to get a good grade. But we sort of need to think, "Who are you writing to?" and, "What point are you trying to make?" Could you try to think of someone else that you would be excited about this person or this group of people reading it? Umm... I guess Latinos. In general. Vince: Latinos in the United States? Fernando: Yeah sure. Vince: Cool. Now, you don't have to have this perfect. This doesn't have to be clean-cut and seamless right now, but you should be able to say to me in about one sentence what you want to prove with this paper. So, like, "I'm writing to Latinos and this is what I want them to know." What is that? That people are just.. in general, openly racist against Latinos. And that's okay. It's validated. Vince: It's validated... Fernando: By the government. Vince: Totally. Do you have that written in this paper at all? Fernande: Yeah I think I do. Vince: Could you look for it? Fernando: It's umm.... here: "Individuals of the Hispanic/Latino ethnic group are under attack and it's crucial to become aware of this situation in order to find real solutions to the real problems we face today."