Your classmate Naomi is reluctant to engage in a peer workshop with you. Consider this problem. Which is a likely cause and best solution to the situation?
Naomi may feel uncomfortable with offering critique in case it is taken as mean. Assure her thatyou know your paper needs work and ask for help in specific areas.
Naomi may not have finished her own paper. In this case, encourage her to give feedback, and then tell her about your own writing process.
Naomi may be uncomfortable interacting with others in social situations. In this case, focus the conversation more about getting to know her to make later peer workshops
easier for her
Ask to be assigned a new person so you don't waste any time.
