That sounds about right. DS is totally resistant to having any help, also. He is under the impression, evidently, that "nobody else" needs their mom's help with HW--even though I've given him direct, contradictory evidence.
I even asked him to just start talking, and I'd type, and then we could organize later. Nope.
He did eventually come up with a paper. Grammar, mechanics, etc.=excellent. Voice=inappropriate (but I just let him say "weirdly enough" etc. for transitions--killing one bird at a time, here, in SOS mode). Organization=questionable. I think, once he begins "talking," he is fairly organized, naturally, just because he has high verbal ability.
I absolutely can not BELIEVE how difficult it is to get him started on writing anything that isn't his own idea.
I'd given him this idea: go through and highlight things you want to quote/paraphrase re: each main idea using a different color. Then go through and paste those things in. Paraphrase, quote as needed. Then I said I'd help with the citations.
This thing could have written itself. He couldn't understand that he didn't have to say anything earth-shattering. He kept saying, "it seems like all these sources just keep saying the same thing over and over again--redundant." I couldn't get him to understand that is kind of what a research paper is.
Once he started writing, he completed five pages pretty quickly, but it definitely seemed like he was trying to be entertaining and not informative.
