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Oh, and I nearly forgot the most important one! That when you're helping them revise their essays, if you tell them "here are what your key ideas are, and here is the structure I think they are trying to articulate" it doesn't work nearly so well as if you make _them_ identify the key ideas and find the structure. Even if it's not as perfect as the one you have, the resultant essay is going to be stronger anyway, because it's flowing from _their_ writing process - you're just letting them tap into that more consciously.